Fwd: Re: [Full-Disclosure] for the record... (Tru64 / Compaq)

From: John Scimone (sertat_private)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 13:23:23 PDT

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    kf wanted this sent on
    -sert
    
    
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    Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] for the record... (Tru64 / Compaq)
    Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 20:01:07 -0700
    From: "KF" <dotslashat_private>
    To: <full-disclosureat_private>
    
    I can't seem to get this to bugtraq ... darn mime types keep barking at me...
     someone wanna forward it. -KF
    
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      From: KF
      To: full-disclosureat_private ; bugtraqat_private ;
     reconat_private Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 7:42 PM
      Subject: [Full-Disclosure] for the record... (Tru64 / Compaq)
    
    
      http://www.msnbc.com/news/788216.asp?0dm=T14JT
    
      Clarke cautioned that hackers should be responsible in reporting
     programming mistakes. A hacker should contact the software maker first, he
     said, then go to the government if the software maker does not respond soon.
    
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      For the record... we contacted HP(at the time Compaq), and CERT several
     times. I attached the original version of our su exploit (not the one that
     phased leaked) to NIPC and to CERT BOTH. We recieved an extremely long delay
     at CERT before they even responded. At that point I called CERT 2 times to
     see what the heck was going on and eventually I establish contact (Ian
     Finley). I also mailed nipc.watchat_private or whatever the email address on
     their page was. They didn't mail back ... no auto responder or nothing. ( I
     mailed the back weeks later and said I was shocked that I got no response
     and still got nothing back). I then called the NIPC hotline 3 times. The
     first 2 times I called I spoke to someone that should have been flopping
     whoppers "uhhhh a non-executable computer security what... let me send you
     to so and so's voicemail". Then I called back a week later and gave them the
     CERT vu numbers (after CERT finally responed). I left my cell phone number
     on someones voicemail again at NIPC... no one called me back.
    
      I deeply regret the fact that one of my team members plagerized another and
     leaked some code but my god people WE TRYED to give SEVERAL people a heads
     up!
    
      -KF
    
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