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- From: bastard@hell
- Subject: Re: QUESTION FOR DIGITAL ON OPEN SYSTEMS
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.022201.8545@dscomsf.desy.de>
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- Organization: Bastard Operator From Hell
- References: <01GMLMVOCT1EFD4OLH@KVI.nl>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 02:22:01 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <01GMLMVOCT1EFD4OLH@KVI.nl>, F.Zwarts@KVI.NL ("Fred Zwarts,
- KVI, Groningen, NL.") writes:
-
- |>> Also, to be more accurate, the analogy should read:
- |>> "If I'm a guest in your house and then I find a door unlocked
- |>> and go inside the room just to take a look around..."
- |>>
- |>> They were already invited guests to the system. They did not
- |>> 'break-in'. They were just rather rude in sticking their
- |>> noise where it shouldn't have been.
- |>
- |>You forget that they not only looked around, but they also created new
- |>privileged accounts and they installed software, the purpose of which was not
- |>mentioned.
- |>
- |>Therefore, I think the analogy goes further. The guest not only goes inside
- |>other rooms, he also creates new doors and places objects of unknown
- |>nature in
- |>those rooms.
-
- Apart from the nifty utilities (which the sysop would be a fool to use,
- beware greeks etc), creating one account with all privs might be quite
- consistent with seeing just how wide open the system was. Then mail
- everyone on the machine with a thoughtful and tastefull note on system
- security from it...
-
- Same sort of menality as seeing somebody who left their terminal logged
- on and mailing a request to the sysop to reduce their disk quota since
- they don't need it any more...
-
-
- Bastard Operator From Hell
-