Hacked or not appendice

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sat, 2004-Jun-12 13:03:07 +0000, Thordur Ivar wrote:
>I have on a CD a number of binarys ( sources actually ) ( e.g. ls,
>find, grep, awk, sed, locate e.t.c. ) and when I belive that a
>machine has been cracked I remove the network cable from that machine
>and mount the cdrom build the sources and start looking. If I need
>something in that process I put it on my USB memstick from a 'trusted
>machine' and move it by hand over.

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Why would you trust the toolchain on a potentially hacked machine?
There's an old paper by Ken Thompson that dicusses patching the C
compiler to recognize the login sources and re-introduce a backdoor -
even it was removed from the login sources.

You would be much better off booting a fixit CD-ROM and using that
rather than trusting anything on the potentially hacked system.

-- 
Peter Jeremy