Not to be pedantic, but can I request that we as TRUE hackers at least get the terminology right. The site was a cracked by a cracker. FPC was created, and is used by a large number of hackers.
Maybe I should just give up........sigh. Ciao A.J. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:31, Sigurd Stordal wrote: > > That's so pathetic. What'd the hacker do anyhow ? And how the heck does > > a hacker break into a *nix box ? (I assume it is...) > It's easy. At least if you run an old redhat, or run some of the dangerous > services. > I remember my machine been hacked into some year ago. The redhat of then just > completely blew all my security measures and installed a service I didn't > want or needed opening my machine wide up. > As to why. When it came to my machine I reckon it was used to either break > into some other computer or as a DoS attack machine. > > So, if you had the impression that a *nix box was hacker proof, then your > wrong. You have to be on the alert all the time, running some sort of > intrusion defense program, and be aware of what services you run, and > possible security problem with them. > > totally OT, but I just couldn't help myself. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
