Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:08:54 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Liberty-req@liberty.net (Leading Edge), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X Y Z Message-ID: <1175.824854134@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 20 Feb 1996 13:40:27 MST." <199602202040.NAA15652@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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> What Thomas Veil has neglected to tells us is: > > 1) Does PROMIS run on FreeBSD under IBCS2 emulation yet? It does, but a small bug (listed at the bottom of page 479 of the PROMIS User's Manual as an "enhancement") also puts every network device you own into promiscuous mode and copies every packet to port 666 at ROMULUS.NCSC.MIL. I wouldn't run it on my system, emulated or not! > 2) Is the Cray in the back of the semi running an unreleased > port of FreeBSD? If so, where can we FTP it from? Well, it is freely available for FTP, but before I give you the URL I should note that everyone who's grabbed it so far has died a rather mysterious death. The archive maintainer himself was found with 4 gunshot wounds to the head, his legs wrapped in anchor chain and sunk in 60 feet of water off the coast of Kennebunkport. Authorities ruled it a suicide then cremated the body on the beach without even taking it to the coroner's office. All somewhat irregular, and to be honest I'm starting to suspect something. On second thought, I think I'll keep that URL to myself - we're short enough on developers as it is! > 3) Was the Russian Citibank hacker running FreeBSD on his > personal computer? DOS? If DOS, was it under PCEMU on > FreeBSD? I'll have to let our russian friends answer that one. They should know, since I've always assumed they're all working for the KGB anyway. > 4) What is the CERT number for this "backdoor", and has > it been fixed in -current? Are you kidding? CERT tries to patch this one and they sleep with the fishes. Besides, it's a FEATURE, damnit! Jordan P.S. In case the folks at Liberty-req don't grok the heavy sarcasm (and I would ordinarily thank them for what WAS actually some rather interesting reading if only they'd bothered to send it to me personally), it really is somewhat out-of-bounds to send this kind of stuff to our development mailing list and it would be highly appreciated if it were removed from whatever forwarder it was erroneously registered with. I don't think that anyone here doubts the almost entirely corrupt nature of the American government, but it's one of those things we prefer not to dwell on!
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