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Message-ID: <200208272111.04701.sert@snosoft.com>
From: sert at snosoft.com (John Scimone)
Subject: Take the trash-talker challenge!

On Wednesday 28 August 2002 12:44 am, Nicolas Couture wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2002 07:35 am, aliver@...il.com wrote:
> > oooookkaaaay,
> > 	Seems there is a vocal clique' of self-important, non-code-posting
> > folks who want to make personal attacks against me. You claim my skills
> > are weak? Let's make it a little more fun an interesting shall we? I
> > posted xxt.c on this list a few days back. Attached is a file which I've
> > encrypted using my utility. If my detractors would like to prove what a
> > silly ass I am then they should feel free to reverse the encrypted
> > message into plaintext. I'll post the key in one week so that any third
> > party can verify any claims to have sucessfully decoded the message.
> > Furthermore, I challenge anyone to write a working exploit which would
> > render a root shell when xxt is SUID root. If you succeed I will:
> >
> > 1. Publically acknowledge your victory.
> > 2. Send you $50.
> >
> > If you don't, then I'll consider you full of shit and you can go on
> > posting garbage like what I've already seen, but your credibility will be
> > even lower than it already is (if that is possible).
> >
> > aliver
>
> Feel free to post xxt.c again as some of us like me probably sent it in the
> trash can.
>
> 	--Nicolas
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