“Online vandals are using a two-month-old security hole in Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system to break into servers on the Internet, a security expert said Tuesday. Researchers witnessed the attack when one intruder broke into a Solaris server under intense observation as part of the Honeynet Project, an initiative to develop ways to turn spare computers into digital fly traps to study and document actual Internet attacks.” Get the rest of the story at C|Net News.com.
Solaris Hole Opening Way for Hackers
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The fact that the person who attacked the SOlaris machine used the machine to attack other IRC servers is why I do not like the IRC protocol; IRC encourages people to engage in petty power struggles like this one. The idea of having operators, kicks, and bans encourages the baser human instincts; I hope a more community-oriented chat protocol takes over.
IRC used to be a very pleasant community orientated culture – much like the BBS scene but larger. Then school kids discovered it 😉
“IRC encourages people to engage in petty power struggles like this one.”
I say better on IRC then out in the street with guns and knives.
Of course, these kids need to get a life, but that will probably never happen.
irc should be more like yahoo chat, where you ignore people you dont like
what you people don’t like is the freedom of major irc networks(efnet/dalnet), despite the fact that *lately* there have been taken actions to put some order into them.
however, there are Planty of Well-Controlled irc networks, so stop cryin about this. sooner or later there will be goverment-controlled chat networks. is that what you really want ?
billy : noone invited you to irc. keep your ass at yahoo chatrooms.