Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 23:46:01 +-200 From: Jouke Dijkstra <element@epsilon.nl> To: "'Brian Tao'" <taob@io.org> Cc: "security@FreeBSD.ORG" <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: AW: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down! Message-ID: <01BB66DE.4DEBEA20@async28.epsilon.nl>
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You should re-read the archives.. He would have put a virus in the quake dist
if he wanted to do much damage. Besides, it's would be the wrong timing to
do such a thing. He'd rather wait till just after a new -RELEASE.
To the FreeBSD team: Thanks a LOT for such a great OS. As a system
administrator, it gives me the ability to go home at 6 pm, and have some
nice dreams about a girl instead of nightmares about crashing computers.
- Jouke
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Van: Brian Tao[SMTP:taob@io.org]
Verzonden: zondag 30 juni 1996 14:48
Aan: Terry Lambert
CC: jkh@time.cdrom.com; security@FreeBSD.ORG
Onderwerp: Re: I need help on this one - please help me track this guy down!
On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> The list is endless, which is why you reinstall. You can trust every
> binary from the distribution media.
Unless, of course, the distribution media itself was compromised
(which would have been the case if the hacker generated his own
tarballs for the ftp.freebsd.org). :(
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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