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- From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
- Subject: Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.171141.27427@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.snackers
- References: <wa-hackersU2NA550pp@clarinet.com> <6pq1n6h@rpi.edu> <1992Nov13.034403.4191@tc.cornell.edu> <mrhoten.721632407@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 22:11:41 GMT
- Approved: alt.packers
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- >mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh) writes:
- >>My question is this:
- >>how'd they decrypt the passwords (as the following claims)?
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- mrhoten@cs.stanford.edu (Matthew Rhoten) writes:
- >Perhaps the article is inaccurate (as so many media articles about
- >computing are), and our wayward cracker merely used the dictionary
- >technique and got lucky with the root password?
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- The dictionary technique is a method of decrypting, albeit a hit-and-miss one.
- "Decrypting" is going from encrypted text to plain text, by whatever means.
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