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Subject: Re: What to do about the impending release of SATAN?
From: Darren Reed <avalon @ coombs . anu . edu . au>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 09:20:57 +1000 (EST)
To: nedbob @ sequent . com (Ned Smith)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <2F69E1AB @ ushqgw . sequent . com> from "Ned Smith" at Mar 17, 95 11:21:00 am

In some email I received from Ned Smith, they wrote:
> 
> 
> Indeed! I think it is safe to assume the miscreants already have SATAN and 
> are engaged in using it to find sites that are exposed. I suspect they're 
> interested in surgically implanting backdoors that can be exploited later - 
> even after increased security measures have been put in place?
> 
> Regards,
> Ned Smith
> nedbob @
 sequent .
 com

Or even, maybe they'll close up the security holes that let them in (if
they're not easily noticeable) to prevent others from getting in and/or
the system admin. from discovering, to his chagrin, that his host has
been vulnerable and so doesn't take any steps to look closer for backdoors.

darren


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