On Feb 16, 9:53 pm, rodney.use...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 16 feb, 13:06, Gerald Vogt <v...@spamcop.net> wrote:
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> > On Feb 16, 8:48 pm, "Bear Bottoms" <bearbotto...@gmai.com> wrote:
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> > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:54:48 -0600, Sebastian G. <se...@seppig.de> wrote:
> > > > shatter attacks
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> > > It is as easy as: Wikipedia:In computing, a shatter attack is a
> > > programming technique employed by hackers on Microsoft Windows operating
> > > systems that can be used to bypass security restrictions between processes
> > > in a session. A shatter attack takes advantage of a design flaw in
> > > Windows's message-passing system whereby arbitrary code could be injected
> > > into any other running application or service in the same session, that
> > > makes use of a message loop. This could result in a privilege escalation
> > > exploit.
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> > If you stood in a library and someone came to you (assuming you are
> > not a librarian) and asked you for the name of the capital of
> > Timbuktu, you would run and go and pick the next encyclopedia, look it
> > up, copy it, and give it to the person in question? You would not just
> > wonder whether that person was a little bit crazy or wonder whether
> > that person thought you were a librarian and paid for that job? You
> > would not tell that person that it should check a encyclopedia??
> > Astonishing... ;-)
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> This is not a library, this is usenet.

Correct. Google and Wikipedia are still just a click away.

> FYI: Timbuktu is the captial of the region Timbuktu in Mali.

I know. It is not extremely difficult to find out if you know how to
use Google. The wikipedia article is the first hit on google. Just
like it is the first hit for "shatter attack"...

Gerald