full-disclosure - Re: Ubuntu 11.10 now unsecure by default

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Message-ID: <CAJtJjZvBDaY6ox1S4sxLpWvJcBn1DAig9ZfsMCGdhDOJRmY12w@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:19:26 +0000
From: Darren Martyn <d.martyn.fulldisclosure@...il.com>
To: Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	C de-Avillez <cerda@....org>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu 11.10 now unsecure by default

About time someone mentioned that little bit of information...

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Dan Kaminsky <dan@...para.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 5:01 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:53:41 CST, C de-Avillez said:
>>
>> > There is no guest account on an Ubuntu server, so at least there
>> > this is not a real/perceived risk.
>>
>> And nobody's *ever* installed the desktop version on a server because
>> they didn't
>> know any better, especially from Ubuntu's target audience.  Gotcha. ;)
>>
>
> OK, seriously.  If you're sitting in front of a machine that's presenting
> you a login prompt, you've got enough privileges to insert a bootable
> USB/CD and pull all the data / make yourself an account (FDE/Bios PW
> notwithstanding).
>
>
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