On Mon, 02 Apr 2001, Jonathan Rickman spewed into the ether:
> > It seems that my previous posts were unclear. I am talking about a remote,
> > non-privileged DoS. No local console, no root access, no floppy access, no
> > power-switch access, no hammer handy.
It is very well known that it is very hard to defend against a
legitimate user with a shell.
 
> reboot. You could always just unleash the beast again once he reboots. If
> an attacker is that focused on completely wrecking a system, he'll just
> wait for the next Lion/Ramen/<insert l33t w0rm> and toss that at it...get
> a root shell and rm -rf /
Nope, the smart kiddie (oxymoron?) will put in knark (or equivalent),
and modify lots of files (including a crontab that kills off a random
server every few hours, with a signal 11, and when the server is
restarted, a random file is deleted/modified or another server dies).

rm -rf * is much simpler to deal with.

> That'll keep the admin busy for hours.
Implement my idea, and the poor admin will be busy for weeks trying to
figure out what is happenign

Devdas Bhagat

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