[Ilugc] Misleading article in Ziff-Davis eWeek
- From: linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
- Date: Tue Nov 2 16:28:30 2004
Sivasankar Chander wrote:
Sivasankar Chander wrote:
sort of semi 31337 crowd that knows just enough to install FC3, knows
^^^^^
Still curious - is this Calculator shorthand for 'Leet' or 'Elite'
among the script-kiddies? Exactly how does it translate, even with
mis-spellings?
3 = E, 1 = lowercase l, 7 = T. Misspelled words, with random case,
letter number substitutions etc are characteristic of IRC skript kiddies
(as is the deliberate misspelling of words like kewl, skript etc).
A vaguely similar form exists among people who, though quite well
educated, think it is essential to spell on email / messenger etc like
they failed their english exams somewhere around std IV and then stopped
learning english after that ...
It still wouldn't get installed unless the guy was root or typed
in the root password, would it? (Unless, of course, there were
holes in pine and sh. Unlikely now, because both have been around for
a long time).
Well - this one dates back to 4..5 years back, and exploited some kind
of local root hole. Someone was sending copies of this to all users on
a lot of free shell servers ..
srs
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