[vox] "Thwarted Linux backdoor hints at smarter hacks"

Rod Roark vox@lists.lugod.org
Sat, 8 Nov 2003 20:24:53 -0800


On Saturday 08 November 2003 07:59 pm, Rob Rogers wrote:
> Someone came VERY close to geting a backdoor into the kernel.
> 
> http://securityfocus.com/news/7388

This was covered on Slashdot this past Wednesday:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/06/058249

Securityfocus has overdramatized this; the perpetrator did
not "come very close".

-- Rod