, SecurityFocus 2004-06-11
The author of a free Trojan horse program favored by amateur computer intruders found himself with some explaining to do to the underground last month, after his users discovered he'd slipped a secret backdoor password into his popular malware, potentially allowing him to re-hack compromised hosts.
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Backdoor program gets backdoored
2004-06-14
Anonymous (1 replies)
Anonymous (1 replies)
Word to FBI and other law enforcers: discover master passes, release them, diminish the scene. May cost a bit of pain but IMHO it's worth it.
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What good does that do ? Now even those less capable of infecting a machine have a free login. Now even more people can access an infected machine. What keeps people from patching the binary and changing it ? Now that we known a definate entry point, why not write a worm to scan and hop from each of these machines ?
I think we're closer to a point where wide-scale consent of government regulations is to occur. This and other instances are the fuel it needs. Just add time.. give it a few years.
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