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<wierd event> bufferOverFlow.ppt
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daemon
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 		<wierd event> bufferOverFlow.ppt
This is really strange. Ok. I am new to this, and really don't know if this is going to be of interest, but dang, if it aint wierd to me. So, I was interested in ARG while browsing wikipedia, and saw it, and got really into the idea of this type of 'game'. So, I might be just thinking in this newer state of mind, and seeing to deeply into things. But what the heck. Figured would just check this with ya'll on the forum.. Ok. So I am in firefox, and I have just wiped everything (don't ask, paranoia), and I am in a completely fresh browser. So I am trying to sign into an account, and I by accident throw the user name into the top of my browser. And my dl manager starts to grab the file. bufferoverflow. So I try it again, and get the same thing. Now, I am pretty tech saavy most of the time, and I really can't see how this could really work, someone getting deep and and changing things round like this. But it's not beyoind anything I ever heard of. SO I go to check this file out, and I gotta say, wierd thing to have just jump at me like it did. I grabbed the adress, as well as the file. I figured I would post it on here (No, I am not trying to start a game, I would like to have a chance to play one first)... And see what anyone here thought. Also, to be able to enter a user name ale-ph-1(sh) btw, and get a file to dl and open up in the right program is more then a bit freaky. I have been able to have this happen in firefox again and again... So, I don't know.. Maybe someone else can verify this for me as well? Anyways.. Here's the link

http://www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/BufferOverflow/bufferOverFlow.ppt

I don't know wether you want to download the file directly...

thanks

Daem

PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:10 am
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Blacklotus
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 		yeah, same thing happens to me if I paste that in there. from what I can tell, pasteing a word in the firefox address bar just pulls up the first link from google. it just so happens the first thing to come up for that combination is a powerpoint file.

weird, but not much. (it would of been better if it was a trailhead IMO Very Happy )
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:58 am
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The Watcher
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 		wait what happened now? I'm confused.

You just typed your username into the URL bar and that file opened?

I can't make that happen. Weird.

This might be better placed in TimeWasters.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:22 pm
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Wishi-san
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 		Take a look in Firefox help.

Quote:
Don't know a URL? Try typing a general word (such as "gifts" or "flowers") into the Search bar and hit enter. This will start a web search for the topic you typed in and will tell you the URL you are looking for.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:43 pm
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daemon
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 		thanks
Iit was wierd
i think I was a byte excited last night over the whole ARG thing... Kinda would be cool for a trailhead, if it was one... Heh.. I feel foolish now
J

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Cyfre
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 		Heh, sounds to me like you're ready to get into an ARG, as most of us feel foolish most of the time around here.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:57 pm
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Eck
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 		If you go up one level of that link (ie, remove the bufferoverflow.ppt part), you'll see it was an example file in a lecture about how easy it is to abuse security holes using buffer overflow.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:11 pm
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karniv0re
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Joined: 07 Oct 2004
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 		Nice
Buffer Overflows are a pretty cool topic. I'm a computer science student, so naturally I was drawn to this thread. In a nutshell, a buffer overflow is a way to exploit badly written programs in order to run arbitrary code (usually to get root access to that machine). If you freaked out when you saw the C and ASM code, don't worry. Most comp-sci students I know freak out too. If you want a really in-depth discussion on this topic (you as in anyone), go check out Aleph One's article on Phrack entitled "Smashing the Stack for Fun and for Profit": http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=49&a=14

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