I second that emotion. I get so tired of seeing the media incorrectly refer to a
"cracker" as a "hacker", which their only reason is that "it is the term they have
always used". Such ignorance. At least correct mentions of "hacker" and "hacking
the kernel" in the recent awareness of linux (one who "hacks" or optimizes their
source code for performance) is encouraging.
Kurt Wall wrote:
> I believe you are referring to a cracker, not a hacker. Otherwise, thanks
> for the information.
>
> Unnamed sources report that Tim Hibbard said:
> > I thought I would update the the LINUX users of the world with the
> > exploit of NFS. If you run NFS, you might want to consider upgrading to
> > the newest NFS, and also blocking outisde traffice at the router level.
> > Recently my system was hacked into, by going through the exploit in
> > NFS. The hacker quickly made many trojan horses and backdoors into my
> > system.
>
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> Spanish Version - http://www.xmission.com/~kwall/iolfaq/spanish/iolfaqsp.html
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