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by FDSGSG 2200 days ago
>4) someone at defcon unveilled an sshd exploit, a pretty nasty one, they had disclosed responsibly and everyone had been patched for at least 6 months, except the people who went against recommendations and installed backtrack2. They all got rooted.

Yeah, I don't think this happened. Nobody has publicly exploited an opensshd rce for ages.

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It may have been the kernel; frankly I'm fuzzy on the details I just remember the staunch warnings and feeling vindicated.

This was like 2007-8.