On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Ron Youvan wrote:
> 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)
As long as you're picking nits, Mac and Linux are not acronyms.
> > 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.
Or LAN ports, or keyboards, or power cords...
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