11BUILDING AND INSTALLING LINUX ROOTKITS
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
–Steve Jobs
Once hackers have gained access to a machine, they often want to remain undetected. One way to do this is to install a rootkit. A rootkit replaces parts of the operating system with the attacker’s code, which is sort of like pasting a photo of a room over a security camera. For example, a rootkit might replace the operating system function that lists all files with one that lists all files except those the hacker ...
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