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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:01:51 -0800, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, yes, except this assumes one has access to the sysadmin...

Physical access.

It's hard to exploit a sysadmin by social engineering
because he hardly has any friends. :-)




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Polytropon
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