Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 20:37:09 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@www.hotjobs.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: "B. Richardson" <rabtter@aye.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I want to break binary compatibility. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980821203617.3004A-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <199808220009.CAA05667@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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hrm, how's about doing that, but instead of giving an error, you shutdown the system and flush all logs. sounds bad, but might help you catch them in the act. Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Mikael Karpberg wrote: > According to B. Richardson: > > > > > > 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? > > One simple way could be to just change the "magic number" on the binaries, > maybe, and disable all linux compat, etc? > > /Mikael > > 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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