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From: rogerc@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Roger Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: USA Today: Hackers can tap into free trip
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Date: 14 Oct 89 23:30:56 GMT
Reply-To: rogerc@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Roger Collins)
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A relative sent me this recent clipping from USA Today (sorry,
don't have the date).

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Attention, hackers: Here's your chance to break into a computer system
and walk away with a grand prize.  The "hacker challenge" dares any
hacker to retrieve a secret message stored in a KPMG Peat Marwick
computer in Atlanta.

[... stuff deleted ...]

This challenge is being sponsored by LeeMah DataCom Security Corp., a
Hayward, Calif., consulting firm that helps companies boost computer
security.  The winner gets an all-expense paid trip for two to either
Tahiti or St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Hackers with modems - devices that connect PCs to phone lines - must
dial 1-404-827-9584.  Then they must type this password: 5336241.

From there, the hacker is on his own to figure out the various access
codes and commands needed to retrieve the secret message.

The winner will be announced Oct. 24 at the Federal Computer Show in
Washington.
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I tried to dial the number and got a sound I had never heard before.
My Hayes Smartmodem 2400 didn't recognize it either.

Does anyone else have more info. about this contest?

Got any ideas why I can't get connected?

What operating system is it?

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	Roger Collins
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