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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Evil Programs
Keywords: Evil Programs
Message-ID: <1990Jan18.035331.16358@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 03:53:31 GMT
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Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department
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Address: Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448

|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.