From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,629e11b80bdec45d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-11 15:39:12 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!opentransit.net!wanadoo.fr!freenix!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Beard, Frank" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:37:17 -0400 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 989620751 69868 137.194.161.2 (11 May 2001 22:39:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:39:11 +0000 (UTC) To: "'comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org'" Return-Path: X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7411 Date: 2001-05-11T18:37:17-04:00 I hope this is not a praise of vi. An editor so cryptic a hacker couldn't get out of it. Frank -----Original Message----- From: John English [mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 10:07 AM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: Re: powerful editors versus IDEs (was: License to Steal) Matthias Kretschmer wrote: > vim is very powerfull if you know it, if you don't know it > at all, you could be get into trouble exiting the editor :-) We had an attempted hacker break-in at our site last year. The thing that foiled the attempt was vi -- one of the system files had been edited, but the edit has been killed, and the recovery log showed the file to be full of "quit -- exit -- bye -- GET ME OUT OF HERE!" stuff near the end... :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ comp.lang.ada mailing list comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada