Bugtraq: Re: [8lgm]-Advisory-14.UNIX.SCO-prwarn.12-Nov-1994

[alan () mid net (Alan Hannan)]

> >   Again, I echo Dave's remarks.  If you think that any cracker with half a 
> > brain doesn't know how to exploit it, then you're quite silly. 
>
>  As someone who has recently been exposed to a hacker, I 
> can say that hacker's *DO* have half a brain.
>
> Our logs show the hacker had sophisticated tools, but didn't know how
> to use them. This hacker doesn't even understand UNIX:
>
> Examples of hacker's commands:
>
>       cat file | grep pattern
>
>       more /dev/nit
>
>       more /dev/pty
>
>
> Need I say more?
  What you didn't say is more important.  How many {h | cr}ackers have been 
through your system patching that you _didn't_ see?

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