were I to guess about the
flashing red letters, I would say that he used
write(1), to send you a
message which contained the text "
^[[5m^[31m J00 hAv3 b33n 0Wn3d^[0m ", where the "^[" stands for the
escape character, and everything else stands for what it looks like.. (of course, this
cake-
stealer doesn't seem like the
malicious sort, so after using escapes to turn on
blink and
red (5m and 31m),
he/she sets the terminal back to it's normal state (0m).)
so anyway, your intruder probably typed something like
perl -e 'print "\x1b[2j\x1b[31m\x1b[5mJ00 hAv3 b33n 0Wn3d \x1b[0m"' | write lemuru
which resulted in you seeing what you say. (the
string causes the
terminal to clear, then turn on blink, turn on red, print the
message, and
reset the terminal back to
normal. "\x1b" is the string containing the escape character, if you're trying to
decipher that.) I hope that was
helpful.... (wow, I am a
geek..)
(and by the way, it's very 1337 of your vt102/xterm/rxvt/whatever to support blink; I am quite impressed..)
I promise it wasn't me who stole your cake, sir