Re: [SLUG] Sony rootkit

From: Ron Youvan (ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 18:43:02 EST


Hi all:
> The real issue to me is that given a network say mill net that some
> unsuspecting person could plop a music CD into a box be it MS Windows, Linus,
> or BSD [recall Apple is BSD] and by that simple process install root kits on
> ALL computers in the network which are invisible to all but a very select set
> of very high level tools which most techies do not have.

   I don't understand how a MS or MAC rootkit could possibly get it's
executable attribute set to "executable" from a Joliet/mixed CD on a LINUX computer.
(what is: "Linus"? I am guessing misspelled LINUX)

> Recall that US military tanks, ships, plains all are using MS Windows as the
> operating system for some functions.

   As far as I have heard all SECURE military computers do not have floppy drives,
serial, parallel, USB or ethernet ports.

-- 
    Ron
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