Regarding Dave's postings to misc@: I posted here about Dave's trollisms and recommended that he read page 17 of Absolute OpenBSD - Unix for the practical paranoid (By Michael Lucas - ISBN: 1886411999)
That post I made, might have been a little naive, as I have just read the 'Acknowledgements' section. And LO! it turns out that Dave Feustel is mentioned on that very page. I apologise if this is already common knowledge among list users, but I'm not that well informed on particular individuals who are involved in the OpenBSD and similar 'movements'. However, it has raised my suspicions to a higher level. The book is copyrighted in 2003, long before I subscribed to this list and maybe even heard of OpenBSD really. Thing is, why would somebody who has assisted in the writing of this excellent book, be posting such troll-like pieces to this list? Maybe Dave, or somebody with better knowledge on these matters, would like to enlighten me on this? It just seems very strange to me. Regards, Craig M On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 06:03 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: > at http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/ > is a 3-part series on X-11 exploits which those who > think they understand x11 security might wish to > read and comment upon. I clearly don't understand > x11 security so I have no comments, but I will read > with great interest comments by anyone else. > > 05-Jul-2004: SSH Users beware: The hazards of X11 forwarding > Logging into another machine can compromise your desktop... > > 08-Jun-2004: The ease of (ab)using X11, Part 2 > Abusing X11 for fun and passwords. > > 13-May-2004: The ease of (ab)using X11, Part 1 > X11 is the protocol that underlies your graphical desktop environment, and > you need to be aware of its security model. > > Dave Feustel
