sendmail debug thingy
Terry R. Friedrichsen
terry at venus.sunquest.com
Thu May 2 10:55:51 AEST 1991
jkp at cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
>For the record, I also don't believe that the sendmail debug feature
>was 'widely known', whatever that means.
And now I read in Unix TODAY! that the "Dutch crackers" are cracking systems
by exploiting a sendmail bug, but "not the same one that the RTM worm used"
(paraphrasing).
Terrific. ANOTHER hole I could close if I only knew what it was. The
Dutch crackers evidently have lists of security holes that they're playing
off. I wish *I* could see those lists.
Maybe I can get the crackers to send me mail, since Dan won't. ;-)
Controlling security hole distribution is like controlling guns: if you
do it, only the criminals will have guns (or security hole information).
The ordinary citizen is defenseless. (Before you flame, please note that
I am not taking sides here, merely pointing out the parallel.)
Terry R. Friedrichsen
terry at venus.sunquest.com (Internet)
uunet!sunquest!terry (Usenet)
terry at sds.sdsc.edu (alternate address; I live in Tucson)
Quote: "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
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