Article 154467 of comp.text.tex: From: owner-texhax-digest@nottingham.ac.uk (TeXhax Digest) Subject: TeXhax Digest V1999 #9 Date: 5 Oct 1999 17:39:28 +0100 Organization: ACS, The University of Nottingham X-Trace: oyez.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk 939141569 18232 128.243.241.164 (5 Oct 1999 16:39:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.nottingham.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Oct 1999 16:39:29 GMT Organisation: (University of Nottingham - mail2news gateway) TeXhax Digest Tuesday, October 5 1999 Volume 1999 : Number 009 (incorporating UKTeX Digest) Today's Topics: "root kit" invasion of servers. [none] TUGboat 20(2) shipped to printer this date ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 21:59:58 -0700 From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay) Subject: "root kit" invasion of servers. During the past two weeks, we have learned of a cascade of assaults on Unix server systems, especially Solaris systems, by the consortium of brilliant programmers in the "root kit" enterprise. There is no way to avoid the suggestion that SUN Microsystems ought to have been sharper about their vulnerability. Most of us knew about "root kit" at least a year ago. This message, however, is aimed not at at at the feckless quality managers at SUN, but at the self-righteous programmers who support "root kit". You guys are brilliant. Compared with the hackers who attack MicroSlush systems, you belong in another realm altogether. But you have never thought through the implications of what you are doing. My little FTP site has no commercial effect whatsoever, but I cannot keep it open as a Trojan horse access to the equally public-spirited network through which it used to communicate. You claim that you intend to shut down voracious corporate networks by making it too risky to keep them open. What you have achieved, at least in my case, is the termination of a service which was offered absolutely freely to all users. Because you have made network access to the software which I was delighted to offer freely to all users a way of destroying the entire network system, I can no longer offer that access. You claim that your activities are inspired by the highest moral standards. Maybe they are, but I would like to hear from you just what those standards are. You have made it impossible for me to distribute free software, and it looks as if you will manage to shut off more than half the remaining distributions of free software. The top echelons of the software industry will not be affected at all. They knew you were there, and they could afford to defend themselves against against you. We can't afford it, and because of your activities, we can't even go on distributing the free software we formerly offered. IS THIS REALLY WHAT YOU INTENDED? It is virtually certain that one of the "root kit" team will read this message. You know better than anyone else how to disguise the origin of a mail message. I would like to hear from one of you just why you think the termination of the growing habit of free distribution of Unix software is a crime that you are willing to suppress with all the energy you can muster. - -- Email: mackay@cs.washington.edu Pierre A. MacKay Smail: Department of Classics Emeritus Druid for 218 Denny Hall, Box 353110 Unix-flavored TeX University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 543-2268 (Message recorder) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:09:07 +0200 From: "W. Muhammad" Subject: [none] Can someone tell me how to install a new package (like easyeqn) under Linux operating system? Thanks in advance ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:02:53 -0500 (EDT) From: Mimi Burbank Subject: TUGboat 20(2) shipped to printer this date I'm happy to finally be able to say that this issue was shipped to the printer today. This issue will contain the 3 CTAN CD-ROMs. Mimi Burbank ==================================================================== TUGboat Volume 20, Number 2 / June 1999 ================================ Addresses 83 General Delivery Mimi Jett From the President 85 Barbara Beeton Editorial comments 86 Remembering Norman Naugle and Roswitha Graham; New home for the UK TUG FAQ; TUB authors' rights; Home site for CONTEXT; Credit where credit is due; The growing Russian TeX library; A new feature: Cartoons by Roy Preston Bart Childs Norman W. Naugle --- A Rememberance 87 Dag Langmyhr Roswitha von den Schulenburg Graham 89 Mimi Burbank You meet the nicest people...Father Everett Larguier 89 Views & Commentary Bernard Gaulle The french package on and off CTAN 91 Response from the CTAN team 92 Barbara Beeton Editor's commentary 92 Letters Jonathan Fine The good name of TeX 93 Petr Olsak Reply 93 Typography Peter Flynn Typographers' Inn 94 Fonts Maarten Gelderman A short introduction to font characteristics 96 Boguslaw Jackowski MF: Practical and impractical applications 104 Language Support Anshuman Pandey Typesetting Bengali in TeX 119 Software & Tools Klaus Hoppner The CTAN May 1999 CD ROM set by DANTE e.V. and Lehmanns bookstore 127 Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen Interacting pdfTeX, PERL and CONTEXT 128 Robert Tolksdorf NetBibTeXing 134 Hints & Tricks Jeremy Gibbons Hey --- it works! 141 Abstracts Les Cahiers GUTenberg, Contents of Issues 31 (December 1998) and 32 (May 1999) 143 News & Announcements Calendar 146 Late-Breaking News Mimi Burbank Production notes 147 Future issues 147 Cartoon Roy Preston Monk-ey business 140 TUG Business Institutional members 148 Forms TUG membership application 150 Advertisements Cambridge University Press 149 TeX consulting and production services 151 Y&Y Inc. 152 Blue Sky Research c3 ==================================================================== ------------------------------ End of TeXhax Digest V1999 #9 ***************************** About TeXhax... 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