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- April 14, 1997 1:30 PM ET
- Hackers fail to crack Mac server
- By Maria Seminerio
-
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- Call it the hack-proof Mac.
-
- More than two months after Swedish systems
- consultancy Infinit Information AB offered a cash prize
- of 100,000 kroner -- about $15,000 -- to anyone able to
- crack into its Macintosh Web server, the company has
- declared the contest closed, and the prize will go
- uncollected.
-
- The company's Macintosh 8500/150 machine survived
- more than 220,000 attempts to crack into its
- administrative functions by guessing passwords, along
- with an undocumented number of tries to alter its IP
- address and penetrate its mail server firewall, Infinit
- officials said.
-
- The contest rules prohibited hackers from physically
- attacking Infinit's system or entering its headquarters,
- calling for them to access the server via the Internet and
- prove their access by altering text or graphics on the
- company's home page.
-
- One would-be hacker claimed he had broken into the
- server and threatened the company with legal action if
- he didn't get the prize -- but then was unable to provide
- evidence that he had done so, Infinit CEO Joakim
- Jardenberg said in a contest update posted on the
- company's Web site at www.infinit.se/.
-
- For those wishing they'd had a chance to take a crack
- at Infinit's mighty Mac, Jardenberg said to watch the
- company's Web site, because the contest is scheduled
- to reopen in a few weeks.