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Special Forums Cybersecurity Attacking Potential of sh-scripts Post 302508797 by pludi on Tuesday 29th of March 2011 05:23:59 AM

03-29-2011

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Since I guess most shell languages based on the original Bourne Shell are Turing complete you can code up anything, given enough time. The simplest case that I can think of is a shell script that connects to an IRC server and acts as a spam bot, or a FTP-over-IRC server.

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