Re: Evil Programs

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From: k... Ken Yap
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 03:53

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|Anyone else know of any Evil Programs?

You only have to subscribe to comp.virus to read some less than funny
stories. :-(

Here's the obligatory war story:

When Telerays T1061s were first acquired by the department, it didn't
take a hacker long to realize that you could squirt an escape sequence
to program a function key with a string and then execute that string.
The obvious target would be a super-user's tty, of course. Fortunately
this hacker wore white and told staff, who promptly fixed write(1) and
mail(1) to filter out escapes and make the terminal mode default to no
write at login.

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From: k...@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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