GENERAL WARNING

Carl Edman cedman at lynx.ps.uci.edu
Wed Sep 26 01:43:42 AEST 1990


PROGRAMMER GENERALS WARNING: Precompiled binaries can be hazardous
to your health and lead to virus infections.

Now, really: It is very easy to change particularily a programm like
a shell to f.e. put the name of a non-backtraceable account into the
.rhosts file and then send mail to it to inform the hacker that
he has just gotten a new account. Maybe even a su account ?
, or to log all lines containing some keywords (like password or username) 
to a public file.

You may want to take the risk, but be warned.


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