Mitnick's target was an enemy's computer. He found he could gain terminal access by spoofing his IP, disguising as an actual server the terminal trusted. He used a SYN flood to disable the real server while IP-spoofing and patterns he obtained allowed him to pretend to be the server.
For the 1 btc I would like more detail about the actual attack. (think sequence numbers, and why it was a syn dos, as apposed to a traditional ICMP DDoS [ping of death] - a couple of paragraphs max.)
as normal, first in best dressed.
as an act of good faith, and because I did not realise the detail I wanted until someone posted I will send dree12 (please pm me.) 1 bitcoin because he has imo, satisified the orginal criteria, but I want more info. so another 1 btc up for someone who wants to write a bit more deatail about the attaack.
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For the record, I do not believe patrick found anything major, if he had, i personally belive it would have already been sent to the devs via pgp rather than irc. And I believe he would not DoS mainnet for a proof of concept bug he is reporting.