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Q: What do these numbers mean? ( No Answer,   2 Comments )
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Subject: What do these numbers mean?
Category: Computers > Security
Asked by: ericzundel-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 07 Mar 2005 07:27 PST
Expires: 06 Apr 2005 08:27 PDT
Question ID: 486130
A hacker infiltrated our system and left a script behind.  In the script
there is a name and a numeric sequence.  What does this numeric sequence mean?

#!/bin/bash
#
# cleaner - by Hephaistos [38.24.8888]
#
# Usage: ./cleaner 'your login name or any string'

Clarification of Question by ericzundel-ga on 07 Mar 2005 09:36 PST
I should clarify that I didn't actually find this script on my system,
I found it on a website he was using to host his tools.  The hacker
did install some kind of IRC bomb (mirkforce) to attack a remote site,
so I thought it might somehow be related to IRC.
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Subject: Re: What do these numbers mean?
From: lrulrick-ga on 07 Mar 2005 08:10 PST
 
Those are most like the port in which the hacker used.  See this page:
http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=38+24+8888+hacker+port&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&u=www.robertgraham.com/pubs/firewall-seen.html&w=38+24+8888+hacker+port&d=CAE69B035D&icp=1&.intl=us

Also not that this helps you any but makes for good reading:

The internet is a child of Ares, the war's god. It was created in 1969
by the US Department of Defense as part of its "Advanced Research
Program Agency" (ARPA). But this is just one story about defense
networks. Homer tells a not less passionate one (Od. 8, 267 ff.).
Hephaistos, the god of fire and technology and Aphrodite's husband,
was informed by Helios about the liaison of his wife with Ares. He
then built an invisible net, like a spider's web, by which Ares and
Aphrodite, caught in burning love, were kept together until all male
gods could bear testimony to the situation -- with an incessant
laughter. But, hélàs, Aphrodite gave birth to Eros. According to Plato
(Symp. 203b), Eros was in fact the son of Poros, a personification of
purchasing and wealth, and Penia, a personification of poverty, who
conceived him during a festivity in honour of Aphrodite.
Some of Hephaistos' successors, today's hackers, seem to be no less
passionate in the art of building invisible networks by which not war
or merchant's spirit but universal free and peaceful life should be
the outcome. In the following I will first refer to Pekka Himanen
analysis of the hacker's passions that gave rise to the internet. In
the second part I will describe how the internet became the ambiguous
place of a cyber-mythology.
Subject: Re: What do these numbers mean?
From: drunkinfoo-ga on 01 Apr 2005 12:46 PST
 
the numbers are most likely the version of the script.
the # means it is a comment and is not used in the actual script

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