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- From: rouilj@cs.umb.edu (John P. Rouillard)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
- Message-ID: <ROUILJ.92Aug18144223@ra.cs.umb.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 19:42:23 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov's message of 17 Aug 92 23: 17:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.231756.469@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes) writes:
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- barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
- >Instead I would suggest that all programs who insist on doing reverse
- >fingering be immediately purged from all systems, and their authors
- >strung up by their genitals.
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- Why so hostile?
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- >Ack, why do people insist on using such hacks?
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- Because they work sometimes. More often than finding someone fingering
- you from a machine running RFC931...
-
- Yes, but any hacker with a brain knows about:
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- rsh <somehost where I am not logged on> finger @host.to.hack
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- A reverse finger returns nothing useful in this case, although an
- rfc931 returns the correct info.
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- I once tracked a cracker back across the net who was pulling this
- trick.
-
- -- John
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