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I think it's fake

Posted Jul 8, 2009 14:30 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: What's "older"? by kpower
Parent article: RUMOR: OpenSSH exploit

I think someone compromised the machine through some other method like brute-forcing the password, and then doctored the transcript.

Nevertheless, I've played it safe and firewalled off SSH on all my Internet-facing machines except from friendly IPs. I guess we'll see in the next few days...

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