Impressed: it has been years since I've been hacked this well :(

[Luis]

And you have given root a password...

Cheers,

Luis.


On 15 Jun 2007, at 14:39, David Bovill wrote:

> On 15/06/07, Ian Wood <revlist at azurevision.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> At the risk of sounding condescending, this is almost infinitely more
>> likely. ;-) If not from a hidden movie then from a Flash ad with
>> audio - I've come across these a couple of times and they are a right
>> pain!
>>
>> I kind of assumed that you'd quit all running applications and was
>> still getting the audio coming through.
>
> You are right - I should have ruled this out more carefully. If I
> remember right I did quit FireFox and the sounds did keep playing -
> but I think this happens for a short while in any case? It seems to me
> in the light of morning that this is the most likely - it just felt
> like someone talking to me and continuing a conversation I'd had
> recently - the paranoia part.
>
> Would be good to be able to search the cache for all embedded movies
> and media - unfortunately I know of no easy way to do that - Spotlight
> does not index the cache. Anyone know of any tools - is the cache for
> Firefox compressed or plain text - maybe I'll write a little Rev based
> tool to search for these culprits - so they can be caught more easily?
>
> I've gone and had a mini security audit - from a friend. It seems
> no-one has had root access to the machine, and I've been the only
> user. No malware found or strange processes running - EavesDrop (a
> socket listener) had been logging everything going in and out for the
> last 9 hours - and I feel a bit happier.
>
> Installed this little sucker - Little Snitch - comes well recommended
> - http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html - asks for
> permission before anything goes in and out. So nothing leaves my
> laptop at the moment unless I give it permission!
>
> Thanks - everyone (and lets not get into a flame war about guns -
> personally i was only kidding).
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