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Re: COLA Stats: Saturday the 23rd of June, 2007.

Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>> The [H]omer award for COLA Advocate of the Week:
>> 
>> alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> (Discussing one of the many ways that GNU/Linux defeats hackers)
>> 
>> .----
>>| There was an article I read about a LAMP system being hacked 
>>| through a PHP exploit. SELinux was enabled on the machine and they 
>>| had server logs indicating that the hacker spent a long time 
>>| (something like an hour or two) attempting in vain to get his 
>>| rootscript to run. 
>>| 
>>| The hack didn't succeed because Apache didn't have permissions to 
>>| execute scripts in the SELinux ruleset. 
>> `----
>> 
>> ngstats.pl version 1.22
>> 
>> Written by Roy Culley.
>> Contributions from Mark Kent.
>> Modifications by [H]omer, 2007.
>> 
>> This report covers 2403 articles received by this system to
>> newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy [1]
>
> Ahh, got my 2nd spot back again :-)
>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Toplist of 'Quality' Posters [3]
>> 
>>  Pos  Poster                                                        Index
>>    1. Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>                    138
>>    2. Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx>                                80
>
> Hehe!

It might mean something the groups peers could analyze the code - but
since its closed source malware (in your words) these statistics really
are 100% meaningless.


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