From: Stephen G. Walizer (technomancer@technomancer.cjb.net)
Date: 04/14/00-10:38:12 AM Z
<sarcasm>
Yes it would have been much better if they had never found the security whole
and publicized it so the companies involved can fix it. It would have been much
better to wait for someone malicious to figure it out and end up with a rash of
nuked QNX boxes with no explanation.
</sarcasm>
now if QNX was open source this would already be fixed by now....
technomancer
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, boris wrote:
> > You know what this means? Any monkey who knows someone is running an
> > iopener (i.e. modify nmap to do a TCP stack fingerprint for QNX) can now
> > nuke people's sandisk's.
> >
> > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hdb
> >
> > *Sigh*
> >
> > -john
>
> Yes, I knew this would come up eventually. That means barries to script
> kiddies majorly fucking over grandma are coming down. About the only
> barrier left is finding the IP addresses for them. Unfortunately, it's
> not terribly hard to figure out. While I applaud the discoveries we are
> making, I'm also afraid that the wrong person is going to see the
> passwords and wreak havok with them. I hope I don't come out sounding
> harsh, but I think it was somewhat irresponsible to just hand out those
> passwords like candy.
>
> I only hope netpliance will be able to change them in time...
>
> boris
>
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