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- From: yaz@phoenix.oulu.fi
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: grep IRC phrack*
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.131417.18572@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 13:14:17 GMT
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- Check out for Phrack #41, File 8 (TTY SPOOFING). I incidently did a
- grep IRC phrack* and found this little piece of article:
-
- > In order to tty spoof, you MUST have at least ONE valid account on the
- >system. You can obtain the account via a little social engineering, or you
- >could try a /who *sitename in the IRC to get nicknames and use their username
- >and try to hack out the password. Try looking for users in #hottub and other
- >st00pid channels because they are the ones who would tend to have the easy
- >passwords. Or use any other method that you can think of to obtain an account.
-
- This is, what I have been reading, the first time IRC was mentioned in that
- Phreak/hack magazine. That really makes me think, how many phrack readers
- (or maybe subscribers, like me) are out there in the Irc-world, and how
- many of them actually collect #hottub (etc) users hoping their passwords
- would be guessable.
-
- Well, time to change your passwords, hottubers! ;-)
-
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