full-disclosure - logs cant e edited remotly?

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From: gui at goddessmoon.org (Poof)
Subject: logs cant e edited remotly?

Wow, and I thought my removing of those 3 miles of flooding of my channel in
my logs was possible.

Guess I should check them again to see if it's still there.

GASP! It's deleted. Weird. I did something impossible!

~
(500 points to the person who can guess the point of this message)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com [mailto:full-disclosure-
> admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of morning_wood
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 13:03
> To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> Subject: [Full-Disclosure] logs cant e edited remotly?
> 
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39116986,00.htm
> ------- snip ------
> ""The court heard that police examinations of Caffrey's machine recovered
> log files of a chatroom conversation that recorded the exact moment the
> attack took place. But the defence argued that if a vulnerability exists,
> the log files could easily have been changed by someone who had accessed
> the
> system remotely.
> The defence counsel asked Stunt if it was possible to cut some text from
> one
> log file and paste it into another log file from a remote computer. Stunt
> dismissed the idea: "Remotely, the answer would be no. It is impossible,
> the
> technology does not exist," he said.""
> ------- snap ------
> 
> ummm... *bzzzzzt*  WRONG
> 
> Donnie Werner
> http://e2-labs.com
> 
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