Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:47:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: rabtter@aye.net (B. Richardson) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I want to break binary compatibility. Message-ID: <199808212347.QAA15261@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.95.980821185606.1979A-100000@orion.aye.net> from "B. Richardson" at "Aug 21, 98 07:12:40 pm"
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one fast way to do this it to scamble the syscall table and recompile everything. you will not be able to run any of the new binaries till you build a new kernel to match. heard this idea from mary murray. any mistakes or umisunderstandings are mine. jmb B. Richardson wrote: > > > I have a problem with some hackers that are obsessed with making my > ISP's life miserable (they've already hacked our SGI). I've slapped > together a FreeBSD box to throw their webpages on it, turned off all > services except http. > > The hackers have expressed intent to break into our machines at > any opportunity (they seem to be infuriated that we intervened and > was able to keep a couple of services up on our SGI). > > The hackers relentlessly attacked our machine every time we tried to > bring our SGI online for a 48 hour stretch, and I believe that are > going to try to break into our new machines with the same fervor. > > What I want to do, if possible is build a uniq system such that binaries > from other systems will not run on it and vice versa. Is this possible? > > > - > > Barrett Richardson rabtter@orion.aye.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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