[clug-talk] Bashing Windows out of ignorance

Gustin Johnson gustin at echostar.ca
Wed May 5 13:54:03 PDT 2010


On 10-05-05 01:51 PM, Greg Saunders wrote:
> Gustin, I'm just jerking your chain :)

I make it so easy to do!  There is a reason I avoid IRC and Twitter :)

<snip>
> While someone was creative enough to fill up the hard drive on the 8.04
> server I set up, the box is still running, apache is still serving and no
> one has yet to PWN the box. There is some crazy cat process melting a whole
> in the CPU right now but it just keeps serving ... sort of :)
> 
That is creative.  Someone is probably trying to dump everything in
memory (swap + RAM).

> Does anyone out there want me to install a C compiler on this box to make
> your PWNing efforts easier?
> 
I would wait on that.  No point in making it too easy.

> Oh, and Gustin, I know you're not a Windows lover, Dafydd vouched for ya :)
> 
I guess I owe him a beer.

> Anyway, if some does PWN this box, it would be valuable to the rest of us to
> know how you did it. I am willing to install pretty much anything anyone
> wants to make this box more vulnerable.

If I get some time I would like to have a look at it.  My main laptop is
pretty sparse at the moment.

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