full-disclosure - Windows covert channel

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From: jazper at cox.net (jazper)
Subject: Windows covert channel

You would do: more < file.txt:1 to see the contents


jazper

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "8tImER" <8tImER@....net>
To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Windows covert channel


> Hello James,
> 
> my guess is you are talking about 'streams' in NTFS.
> Example:
> Create a text file, save it.
> Then use 'echo "hidden text" >> file.txt:1' to add the hidden stuff.
> I don't remember how to read that stuff out afterwards though.
> 
> -- 
> Greetz,
>  8tImER                            mailto:8tImER@....net
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> 
> Originaltext:
> Am 20.10.2003 um 01:04:21 hast du geschrieben:
> 
> > I seem to remember in the dim reaches of my memory a covert channel in
> > the Windows file system where you could paste one file at the end of
> > another without it being detectible when you edited the orginal file.
> 
> 
> > can someone aim me at the right "buzz phrase" that describes this so I
> > can Google it further?
> 
> > jim k
> 
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