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  1. Newsgroups: comp.security.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!hubcap!news
  3. From: stehman%citron.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jeff Stehman)
  4. Subject: Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov16.141341.10242@hubcap.clemson.edu>
  6. Sender: news@hubcap.clemson.edu (news)
  7. Reply-To: stehman%citron.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu
  8. Organization: Clemson University
  9. References: <1992Nov13.172230.3045@das.harvard.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:13:41 GMT
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  13. From article <1992Nov13.172230.3045@das.harvard.edu>, by adam@endor.uucp (Adam Shostack):
  14. >>Would you like to require people to read c.s.m for a couple of months before
  15. >>they're allowed to purchase a computer?
  16. > 
  17. > No, I'd like too see vendors ship a decent version of password, say
  18. > npasswd.
  19. > 
  20. > I'd also like to see a two-three page readme on securing your
  21. > workstation, and some slightly tougher defaults, like not putting that
  22. > "+" in Sun's /etc/hosts.
  23. > 
  24. > Closing a few simple holes probably makes an awful lot of difference.
  25.  
  26.  
  27. Exactly.
  28.  
  29. --
  30. Jeff Stehman            Systems Staff, G-18A Jordan
  31. stehman@cs.clemson.edu        Dept. of Computer Science
  32. (803)656-2639            Clemson University
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