Re: [OT] New Anti-Terrorism Law makes "hacking" punishable by life in prison

From: Manfred Bartz (mbartz@optushome.com.au)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2001 - 05:41:30 EST

Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no> writes:

> .. but at least fixes appear a lot faster for linux. That alone
> don't usually leave enough timespan for a large-scale exploit.

I wouldn't count on time, regardless of the OS. How about 15 minutes
to infect all vulnerable hosts on the Internet? See:

        <http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/warhol.html> 

-- 
Manfred Bartz
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