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RE: Re: Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how many on your network?



sure, of course when you contort reality to where college pranks are the
same as vast corporate conspiracies then im sure you will find plenty of
example, I however meant *real* ones, not what a college student did to
another for fun.


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        Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
        it is the courage to continue that counts.

        -- Sir Winston Churchill

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Cromar Scott wrote:

> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:34:30 -0500
> From: Cromar Scott <SCromar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: jf <jf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, thefinn12345@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: ***PossibleSPAM*** Re: Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how
>     many on your network?
>
> Ken Thompson pulled a famous prank back in the old days.  He refers to
> it in the following:
>
>  http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
>
> I've heard a few different versions of this story, some of which would
> fit your requirements.
>
> --Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jf [mailto:jf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:28 AM
> To: thefinn12345@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: ***PossibleSPAM*** Re: Re: Solaris telnet vulnberability - how
> many on your network?
>
> > There have also been too many times in the past when they have been
> proven correct to ignore the possibility any longer.
>
> Hi, in what instances has the conjecture that a bug was a deliberate
> backdoor been proven correct?
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