[Rustington] Linux Distribution

Stuart McFadyen stuart.624mcfadyen at btinternet.com
Mon Feb 6 20:42:48 UTC 2012


Paul

Despite Americans using "z" instead of "s", what makes you think this 
distribution is a scam ?

I am intrigued ????

Stuart.

Paul Willis wrote:
> What a great way to get the secrets from PC users and recruit a bot
> army - offer a new system (just a popular one with some new
> decorations) and while installing it mount any other file systems and
> harvest passwords and data, ship them back to base and lay in some
> nice little eggies to give you control of the machine at some later
> date - regardless of what system happens to be running. Or sneak in a
> hidden update repository where the eggs can be supplied from later.
> These times of full root privilege are just prefect for exploitation.
> Don't suppose they'd be daft enough to write an inverse disclaimer
> though ... or would they?
>
> P
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