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- From: rand@lucy.merrimack.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Failures in system security.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.081548@lucy.merrimack.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 13:15:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.130323.1@woods.ulowell.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov12.130323.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, welchb@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
- > Does anyone have a program which monitors the phone object (29) to
- >catch "blast" programs. A blast program is defined as one which allows
- >the user to make an unidentified message appear on another user's
- >screen (in real time).
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- Some of my users got a similar COM file off the net. They abused it too.
- My users aren't that sophisticated. I thought I could fool them by just
- changing the object number. Bzzt. One of my helpful operators 'solved a decnet
- problem for a student' the next night.
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- I'm thinking about bagging it and replacing it with talk. Since everyone
- wants to talk to people off campus it'll kill two birds with one stone.
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- Rand P. Hall, System Janitor, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts
- Internet: rand@merrimack.edu, rand@lucy.merrimack.edu
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