PC Week: Has Back Orifice gone legit? | Linux Today

PC Week: Has Back Orifice gone legit?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 13, 1999

“I think you can guarantee that there will be a ‘Back Orifice
for Dummies’ book.”

“That’s what Cult of the Dead Cow member Tweety Fish hopes will
be one outcome of Saturday’s debut…”

“… the big news about BO2K is that it will be available as
open source code under GNU Public License.”

“That open-source move has the potential to make BO2K the
Linux of hacking tools
— freely available for programmers to
refine and mutate at will — and a much more slippery program for
anti-virus and intruder-detection firms to counter, as its
electronic signature can be altered in the source code.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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