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Works both ways

Posted Jul 7, 2009 18:32 UTC (Tue) by ESRI (guest, #52806)
In reply to: Works both ways by ncm
Parent article: RUMOR: OpenSSH exploit

Alternately, if you discovered an exploit that worked only on an older version of OpenSSH, you might want to suggest what you just did so that we'd avoid installing a newer release and instead stick to the older, vulnerable version.

We're onto you!!


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Works both ways

Posted Jul 7, 2009 20:50 UTC (Tue) by drfickle (guest, #1093) [Link]

Inconceivable!

Works both ways

Posted Jul 8, 2009 7:34 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

This is heavy. :-)

The question is ...

Posted Jul 8, 2009 21:39 UTC (Wed) by kmself (subscriber, #11565) [Link]

... are you the kind of cracker who'd put the exploit in the version in
front of you, or the version in front of me?

Now ... where was I?

Works both ways

Posted Jul 8, 2009 1:05 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

Ah, but then who started the rumor, and why?

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