Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-13 Thread chefren
On 02/11/06 17:50, Dave Feustel wrote: Sorry. I don't intend to offend or to irritate. Trying to be polite with words doesn't guarantee you don't offend and irritate in practice. You are definitely trolling this list and you are misusing free speech and the openness of the list. Please

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-13 Thread Craig M
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'

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-13 Thread Felipe Scarel
I thought the very same thing yesterday, when he published his web site on the list. I took a look there, and assuming everything is correct, looks like he ported KDE and Qt to OpenBSD, which seems huge (of course he shouldn't have done that alone. Moreover, his job carrer include big companies

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-13 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hi Craig, On 2006.02.13, at 10:31 PM, Craig M wrote: 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

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Felipe Scarel wrote: I thought the very same thing yesterday, when he published his web site on the list. I took a look there, and assuming everything is correct, looks like he ported KDE and Qt to OpenBSD, which seems huge (of course he shouldn't have done that alone. Moreover, his job carrer

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-13 Thread Greg Thomas
On 2/13/06, Shane J Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Craig, On 2006.02.13, at 10:31 PM, Craig M wrote: 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

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-13 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:00:24PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: I would expect the people writing books, specially on OpenBSD to know a lots more then me, so that I can learn from them, but if what you say is true, it make me question my idea and intention of buying the book to start with!

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-13 Thread Tony
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:00:24PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: I would expect the people writing books, specially on OpenBSD to know a lots more then me, so that I can learn from them, but if what you say is true, it make me question my idea and intention of buying

[OT] Rant on some person (was: X11 exploit info)

2006-02-13 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:53:32PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Something I won't quote] Please, stop ranting on persons -- it doesn't help. The intentions of my own replies weren't to flame D.F. to death but just to point out that those exploits infos were just silly. Period. EOT for me.

X11 exploit info

2006-02-11 Thread Dave Feustel
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.

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-11 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:03:51AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: 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. Whow! So if I get root access to your computer, I have access to

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/11/06, Matthias Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:03:51AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: 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. Whow!

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-11 Thread Roman Hunt
me and I'll be happy to help. - Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Feustel Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:04 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: X11 exploit info at http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/ is a 3-part

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-11 Thread Ricardo Lucas
. Dave - Roman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Feustel Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:04 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: X11 exploit info at http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/ is a 3-part

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-11 Thread Matthew Closson
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Feustel Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:04 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: X11 exploit info 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