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From: demon@ibmpcug.co.uk (Cliff Stanford)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,connect.audit
Subject: Re: GENERAL WARNING
Keywords: hackers
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.234214.338@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 26 Sep 90 23:42:14 GMT
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Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
> Now, really: It is very easy to change particularily a programm like
> a shell to f.e. put the name of a non-backtraceable account into the
> .rhosts file and then send mail to it to inform the hacker that
> he has just gotten a new account. Maybe even a su account ?

	You mean that if that were included in the source to a
large program (ELM, for instance) you'd notice it was there
before compiling it?  I doubt I would.
	Regards,
		Cliff.
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