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- Subject: Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.173349.3192@nic.csu.net>
- From: ericd@gaudi.CSUFresno.EDU (Eric Douglas)
- Date: 13 Nov 92 17:33:48 PST
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- In article <6pq1n6h@rpi.edu> fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
- [ brian's request deleted ... ]
- >UPI writes:
- >>
- >> SEATTLE (UPI) -- U.S. attorneys late Tuesday arrested and charged two
- >>young men with ``hacking'' their way into computer systems operated by
- >>Boeing, the U.S. District Court and the Environmental Protection Agency
- >>offices in Seattle.
- [ deletions ]
- >> ``Once the system was accessed, Anderson copied the file containing
- >>the passwords controlling access to the computer system,'' an affidavit
- >>filed with the charges stated. ``He then transferred the password file
- >>to a Boeing Company computer, where he decrypted the passwords.''
- >> That process gave Anderson the ``root'' password, which allowed him
- >>to have unrestricted access to the computer system at the courthouse,
- >>the affidavit said. Once inside, it said, ``the hackers were able to
- [ rest of story deleted ]
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- I would certainly hope that by now system administrators would know better
- than to pick words which appear in numerous dictionaries as their privledged
- passwords.
-
- --eric
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