[plug] More April 1st Fun

[Alan Graham]

I must be getting old.  I don't see the joke in this.  Let me hasten to add
that I read hack.  But I can't see what's meant to be funny.

"This package diverts the usual binaries you want to install..." etc.  Nope,
don't get it.

Alan

----- Original Message -----
From: Arkem (Paul) <arkem at mornmist.2y.net>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: [plug] More April 1st Fun


This message contains gratuitous use of the word root.
You have been warned.

This is from the debian-devel mailinglist but has been trumpeted all
over the place. Appologies if you've already seen this.

- Paul C

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: ITP: rootkit - a Ro0Tk1t 4 Deb1an boxxxen
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 03:39:56 +0200
From: Simon Richter <sjr at debian.org>
To: debian-devel at lists.debian.org

Package: rootkit
Version: 0.1-1
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Description: a Ro0Tk1t 4 Deb1an boxxxen
 D15 p4(kaG3 d1V3rt5 d4 u5U4L b1N4r135 U w4Nt 2 r3Pl4(3 1N a 5Y5t3m
 (0nf0Rm4nT M4Nn3r, 50 tH4T 3V3n r31N5t4lL1nG '3m w0n'T h3Lp !! dpkg
 w1Ll n0T (!) 0v3RwR1t3 d4 f1L3Z 1N D15 P4(K4G3 !! H4h4!
 .
 jU5T d0 apt-get install rootkit, 4n5W3r d4 q35t10nz && h4V3 fUn!!!

Please don't anybody tell the script kiddies that it will uninstall
cleanly.

   Simon

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