Xref: utzoo comp.misc:12328 news.groups:31484 alt.flame:32366 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.misc,news.groups,alt.flame Subject: Re: Dutch Hackers Keywords: "But do you have anything similar in earwig?" -- Lefty@apple.com Message-ID: <1991Apr30.064042.18410@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 30 Apr 91 06:40:42 GMT References: <1991Apr23.013425.3461@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <27495@hydra.gatech.EDU> Followup-To: alt.flame Distribution: na Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 32 jb107@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) writes: > boaz@CONCERTO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Boaz Ben-Zvi) says: >> Without permission, from Sunday's NYT : >> COMPUTER INTRUDERS TAPPING U.S. SYSTEMS ( by JOHN MARKOFF ) [...] >> The researcher has been able to make computer records of the >> intruders' keystrokes as they have electronically prowled through >> U.S. military, NASA, university and dozens of other computers. It has >> then been possible to play this information back and gain an exact >> picture of the computer screen as it appeared to the intruders in the >> Netherlands. > *This* is a hell of a lot scarier than what the Dutch are doing! Why? You break into my machine, I catch you at it and record the full duplex echo going back on your line, I say to myself "self, those look like ANSI terminal escape codes", I play the recording onto an ANSI terminal, and I've got, minus a few lines I may have missed at the beginning, the same thing on my screen you have on yours. If I tee off the returning echo, I have it in real time. Takes slightly less brains than a flatworm to figure that one out, nothing the least bit high tech or "scary" about it. Kent, the man from xanth.