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Devices Hacked?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cr00zng" data-source="post: 1810776" data-attributes="member: 318059"><p>In order to pop up the terminal on a remote system, one would need to login with SSH on the remote system. While it is possible that the person already hacked the system and could do this, it's very unlikely. Once one owns a system, why mess with the end users? There's no hacker who will tell you, that "DATA TRANSFER IS IN PROGRESS...".</p><p></p><p>The more likely scenario is that the website visited had a terminal emulator running and the browser had been sized to full screen. Simply closing the browser would have eliminated the perceived threat.</p><p></p><p>At least that's how I've looked at this...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cr00zng, post: 1810776, member: 318059"] In order to pop up the terminal on a remote system, one would need to login with SSH on the remote system. While it is possible that the person already hacked the system and could do this, it's very unlikely. Once one owns a system, why mess with the end users? There's no hacker who will tell you, that "DATA TRANSFER IS IN PROGRESS...". The more likely scenario is that the website visited had a terminal emulator running and the browser had been sized to full screen. Simply closing the browser would have eliminated the perceived threat. At least that's how I've looked at this... [/QUOTE]
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