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From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: A Program To Allow ANYONE... (Not again!)
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Date: Fri, 25-Nov-83 19:02:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 25 19:02:08 1983
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I think chuqui's flame at Perry for distributing the "system cracking"
program was a little severe since Berkeley had already done it for him
(at least on 4.1c and 4.2) in the form of adb which, together with a
readable /dev/mem (that's right mem not kmem) allows you to watch passwords
being typed.

I suppose we'll all have to make our /dev/mem's and /dev/kmem's unreadable
by mere mortals and make all the programs that need to read them (w, ps,
routed, ... ???) run suid root.
-- 
	Mark Callow, Saratoga, CA.
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