This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Newsgroup mimicry
Article: 8835 of alt.hackers newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!raffles.technet.sg!jseng From: jseng@spice.com (James Seng) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Newsgroup mimicry Date: 4 Oct 1995 01:31:17 GMT Organization: SPICE.COM Private Limited Lines: 18 Approved: god...who else? Message-ID: 44so55$fol@raffles.technet.sg NNTP-Posting-Host: pepper.spice.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Mark Richer (markr@taipan) wrote:
: ObhackthatIdon'tfullyunderstand:
: #This demonstrates how desperately many Unix systems need the following
: #patch:
basically, it replace the /bin/cat command with a trojan perl script version
which will flood the mailbox of root and the user. Nothing serious and as
good as nothing as you need root to install it first.
ObHack:
Wrote a News<->WWW gateway. No big deal since Netscape can do
it natively.
However, the gateway will be useful if you are on a host not authorised to
read or post. There are also additional services, for example, all outgoing
posting will be automatically signed with PGP.
No URL given here. This is a hack, not a advertisment for my service.
-James Seng
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