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- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!dave
- From: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Dave Hayes)
- Subject: Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.204917.19519@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Reply-To: dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Lab - Pasadena, CA
- References: <1992Nov12.084549.5128@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <1992Nov13.195515.19232@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1ejjt7INNhql@talon.UCS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:49:17 GMT
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- stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
- >>>filed with the charges stated. ``He then transferred the password file
- >>>to a Boeing Company computer, where he decrypted the passwords.''
- >>> That process gave Anderson the ``root'' password, which allowed
- >If decrypting the passwords gave him the root password, then yes, Dave,
- >they cracked the root password.
-
- "That process gave Anderson the root password". That could also mean
- that by getting a random account on the machine they _acquired_ root
- access, and then changed the password.
- --
- Dave Hayes - Network & Communications Engineering - JPL / NASA - Pasadena CA
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- Penitent (adj.) - 1. Someone who has been made incapable of enjoyment.
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