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- From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Forgeries from schonberg.cs.nyu.edu have stopped
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 12:02:49 GMT
- Organization: New York University Ultracomputer Research Lab
- Message-ID: <4ffd59$e5@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
- References: <31193d8a.362785177@news.dimensional.com> <4fcp2s$a2v@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <311ad623.9736890@news.dimensional.com>
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- In article <311ad623.9736890@news.dimensional.com> cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com writes:
- >| As I said, those two headers differ in a way that shows the message
- >| didn't originate at schonberg.cs.nyu.edu, but if I say what that way
- >| is, the next forgery will get them correct.
- >|
- >
- >I think your comments above are mistaken for the following reasons:
- >
- >I believe that the forgeries have stopped from schonberg.cs.nyu.edu
- >after the long telephone call message I received at 8:05 PM 2/7/96
- >from security personnel there, but not because of the reason(s) and
- >attribution(s) proffered in that message.
-
- There were exactly two forgeries that appeared to be from that
- machine, at intervals of a few weeks. So it's FAR to early to
- conclude they've "stopped".
-
- To me, at least, the style of both messages suggested they came from the
- same person.
-
- The first message, as you pointed out, did NOT come from an NYU machine
- since it mispelled a router in the path. I therefore conclude the second
- did not as well.
-
- >I believe that the fact they have stopped is due to "somethings"
- >having been changed at schonberg.cs.nyu.edu, eg, no more hackable
- >accounts such as joe.XYZ@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu.
-
- There were NEVER valid accounts of that form on any NYU machine. These
- are mail aliases only. I am unaware of any configuration changes on
- that machine.
-