[plug] I feel like the Queen

[Leon Brooks]

Specifically, when they were singing ``We are the Champions!'' (-:

    http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2027

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Sec33.com - 7 Days ago today, Mandrake 8.2 was loaded onto a server and 
placed into the DMZ of Sec33.com's network. Without a firewall Mandrake sat 
and waited while an invitation to hack this system was broadcast around the 
globe.

1 week has passed, the base install of Mandrake 8.2 is rock solid. Without 
any protection from a firewall or packet filtering device the OS has 
seriously stood up and taken a beating. This latest version of the Mandrake 
flavor has received well over several thousand individual attacks and hasn't 
needed so much as a simple killing of a process or reboot. 

If you haven't taken a look at what we have going here. It is a must. 

The project has been named 'Simple Simon', and is available at 
www.sec33.com/page.php?page=simon.html. Check it out. Mandrake 8.2 is 
definately a winner.

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FAQ:

What is Simple Simon? - This is easily answered; in March of 2002 the users 
of Sec33.com voted for us to create a server that will allow anyone who 
wishes to participate in this oppurtunity to educate and entertain themselves 
with a FREE server to test their security / hacking skills. We wanted to 
provide the community with a location and an evironment to test, develop and 
learn skills that are necessary to protect systems and networks. We do not 
discriminate, nor require accounts, or logins and passwords to participate 
with Simple Simon. If you have the urge to attack Simon, then go for it. We 
have setup a forum on Sec33.com for those who wish to communicate about what 
they have found and so on. Feel free to share your information, brag, vent or 
whatever. ** Note ** We did throw a file on the system with root only priv's! 
If you chown this file with an account on the system created by you and post 
the contents of it in the Sec33 forum for Simple Simon, then you get extra 
special bragging rights! The file name is /root/.SimpleSimon - Have fun.

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Cheers; Leon