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There was an SSL library employed to ensure data transfer was encrypted, and there appeared to be some basic user account authentication...
Rich tried and was able to connect to the computer from which the connection had come, and was ultimately able to get root (administrator access) on it, having found a buffer overflow exploit that no one had bothered to patch; the server itself appeared largely unused, and was running an OS that was at least 8 years out of date
originally posted by: Baddogma
a reply to: aorAki
Thank you for that... exactly the sort of info I wanted collated.
And he also hinted that something helped Gary McKinnen when he hacked the U.S. govt looking for UFO data (and found records of non-terrestrial officers)... perhaps that was ALICCE... heck, as a supposed self aware AI... perhaps ##SNIPPED## was AALICCE! Heh...
originally posted by: framedragged
Was just reading through astroengineer's story (I thought I read it a long time ago, but nope) and I came upon this:
There was an SSL library employed to ensure data transfer was encrypted, and there appeared to be some basic user account authentication...
combined with
Rich tried and was able to connect to the computer from which the connection had come, and was ultimately able to get root (administrator access) on it, having found a buffer overflow exploit that no one had bothered to patch; the server itself appeared largely unused, and was running an OS that was at least 8 years out of date
How amazing would it be if this was Heartbleed?