> Btw, some have been mentioning "a hacker could spend weeks".
> Well, that's true - if the target is interesting enough.
> Most "hackers" (scrippies) are just out for the fast kick/breakin to
> install their ircbot or a ddos-drone - remove that noise first :>
Since was I that said that, just a little add to say that I was refering to
a hacker not a kidiot.
It's the diference between having sex or hacking playboy.com for free
movies.
> Other point in here is: The pen-tester has *one* advantage, he can
> ask the customer for an account on a machine, e.g. on a webserver -
> just *assume* a CGI is vulnerable (most are anyway :P) and then from the
> "start" being the UID which runs the webserver try to elevate your
> priviledges.
Again ... the same problem :>
[ ]'s bacano
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Received on Sep 06 2001
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