Most terminals released in the last few months aren't afflicted by this, particularly the most common. You have to be running a terminal to get hacked like this. You need some pretty contrived circumstances to get hacked like this; your average opportunistic script kiddie won't be able to use this trick too easily on strangers. Besides, couldn't you just set up a cron job to pipe all the logs through strings?
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I could be wrong, but didn't Microsoft release one a few months ago to coincide with the release of the Two Towers?
Most terminals released in the last few months aren't afflicted by this, particularly the most common. You have to be running a terminal to get hacked like this. You need some pretty contrived circumstances to get hacked like this; your average opportunistic script kiddie won't be able to use this trick too easily on strangers. Besides, couldn't you just set up a cron job to pipe all the logs through strings?