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OpenSSH Gets Even More Suspicious
If you remotely administer any computers, or need to check your email over an untrusted network, odds are you're already familiar with the wonders of OpenSSH. Markus Friedl yesterday posted a release announcement for the newest version, OpenSSH 3.3. Privilege separation in OpenSSH is now enabled by default, another sign of the entire OpenBSD project's appropriate paranoia.
You've heard of the recent apache bug. Apparently, the OpenBSD team is announcing it as a "possible remote crash".
Since a remote exploit already exists, shouldn't they detail the severity on their front page?
Nothing against the OpenBSD team... I believe they do excellent work, but heck, people, PLEASE patch up those systems! It's only a matter of days before someone is going to drop a new worm! This is horribly serious!
We managed to get the Win3.1 Program Manager open on a Windows ME that was running IE in kiosk mode in a museum. After that it was easy to get the DOS prompt open, but after typing format C: and answering the Are you sure(Y/N)? with >Y, the program ended saying, "Cannot format drive C: There are shared files."
That answered my age old wonder of what would happen if one tried to format the drive one was running Windows out of.
We wondered how to download and install Linux on the box too, but gave up on the problem. Later, I thought it could be done like so: we could download a distro install disk and loadlin and make loadlin load the setup program through a line in autoexec.bat. It was quite funny considering we were visitors of a Linux event being held in the museum.
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!