NODE b221c7e3Re: Kashpureff stuff online
nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)Tue, 2 Dec 1997 13:02:43 +0800
Anyone know of any low S/N lists out there for "Crackerpunks"??
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> > So what did Kashpureff do? Who is Kashpureff? Is he the guy at
> > Alternic who did some advanced DNS hacking to get Internic DNS root to
> > point to him? Or something else?
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> Yup, that's him.
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> IIRC, he exploited Bind's failure to check input in certain cases:
> He set his DNS server to be the delegating authority for .com,
> say; then sent a recursive query to his victim's DNS server to get
> the victim to query _his_ server; his server mixed the bogus info
> into its response to the query, thus poisoning the victim's DNS.
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> Cypherpunks write code.
> Crackerpunks read code.
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> Ng Pheng Siong
> <ngpsstoi@pacific.net.sg>
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