On 16 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe in the early 90's there was a serious problem discovered in intel
> chips that allowed certain standard code to be run to overflow programs
> arbitrarily and gain access to operating systems in an administrative
> capacity.
>
> Also I remember
I believe in the early 90's there was a serious problem discovered in intel
chips that allowed certain standard code to be run to overflow programs
arbitrarily and gain access to operating systems in an administrative capacity.
Also I remember the redhat (back in the day) repository being hacked
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:
> I believe in the early 90's there was a serious problem discovered in intel
> chips that allowed certain standard code to be run
> to overflow programs arbitrarily and gain access to operating systems in
> an administrative capacity.
>
> Also I remember the redhat (back in the day) repository b
I wonder if that's the attitude the NSA and CIA had before the world trade
centre came down ?
The idea isn't world domination via telnet, but infamy via one malicious act.
You cannot ever really trust code that you don't write yourself.
You can run around with fantasies of world domination via
http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
Thanks to Cromar Scott for the link.
Great anecdotes there.
I especially liked his comments about companies "You cannot trust code that you
didn't totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ
people like me)."
Exactly the thought that
