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- From: carl@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (Carl Brewer)
- Subject: Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers
- Message-ID: <9232310.25525@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
- References: <1992Nov12.084549.5128@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <1992Nov12.142251.9131@hubcap.clemson.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:24:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.142251.9131@hubcap.clemson.edu> stehman%citron.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
- >From article <1992Nov12.084549.5128@unix.brighton.ac.uk>, by ddv@unix.brighton.ac.uk (Domenico De Vitto):
- >> Any org. that has a _root_ password in _a_ dictionary gets all it deserves.
- >
- >
- >Would you like to require people to read c.s.m for a couple of months before
- >they're allowed to purchase a computer?
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- it would be a good idea for anyone connecting a machine to the internet
- to do so, or similar. But this would seem to be common sense ....
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- Annal Natrach, Usthvah Spethed, carl@ecr.mu.oz.au (IRC: Bleve)
- Dochoel Dienve carl@munagin.ee.mu.oz.au
- carl@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU
- Merlin, where are you? Call your dragon, to weave a mist...
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