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- From: valdis@vttcf.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: Debugging program on mailing machine
- Message-ID: <5126@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 04:45:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul25.012355.11106@ctr.columbia.edu> <6NQHY31@taronga.com>
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- Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
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- In article <6NQHY31@taronga.com> peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >Wow. You're showing anyone who can read the mail spool on half a dozen systems
- >how to execute any arbitrary program on your account, with your password in
- >plaintext no less!
- >
- >Shouldn't this be in alt.hackers.malicious? :->
-
- Peter: No.
-
- This belongs in alt.hackers.shot.self.in.foot ;)
-
- ObHack: Porting the IBM Pascal/VS compiler to the MUSIC operating
- system. Since the compiler is itself written in Pascal, this
- involved compiling most of the modules on an IBM OS/VS1 system and
- shipping the text decks over (thank the God of Programmers that
- MUSIC and VS1 have compatible text deck formats.,.) All that was
- left after that was fixing some problems in the system's OS simulator
- so that it would run correctly while loaded in the system re-entrant
- library. What a zoo *that* was...
-
- Valdis Kletnieks
- Computer Systems Engineer
- Virginia Tech
-