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- From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
- Subject: Re: Where can I find a "fingerd" that fingers the person back?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.175452.10792@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:54:52 GMT
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- rouilj@cs.umb.edu (John P. Rouillard) writes:
-
- >Yes, but any hacker with a brain knows about:
- > rsh <somehost where I am not logged on> finger @host.to.hack
- >A reverse finger returns nothing useful in this case, although an
- >rfc931 returns the correct info.
-
- Does it? If the hacker is logged in as a hacked account, RFC931
- doesn't help at all except to track the account.
-
- Even then...any hacker with even more of a brain does:
-
- finger @host1@host2@target
-
- which probably cannot be tracked back so easily by either method.
-
- And neither inadequacy is sufficient to condemn either method. Use
- what works for you.
- --
- Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
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- To the ignorant, a pearl seems a mere stone.
-