full-disclosure - Re: ASUS Eee PC rooted out of the box

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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:25:00 -0500
From: "Stack Smasher" <stacksmasher@...il.com>
To: A.L.M.Buxey@...ro.ac.uk
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: ASUS Eee PC rooted out of the box

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC

ASUS sold over 300,000 units in
2007,[4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC#_note-2>and plans to
sell several million in 2008


They are selling 100K every 25 days.




On Feb 8, 2008 3:21 PM, <A.L.M.Buxey@...ro.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> > It is a remote root exploit on a very popular piece of hardware, you
> don't
> > think that is a big deal?
>
> from what I've read, most people are sticking WinXP or Ubuntu onto these
> EEPCs as soon as they get them
>
> alan
>



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