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From: joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: mac hacking software?
Message-ID: <1990Jul8.171534.15821@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 8 Jul 90 17:15:34 GMT
References: <4816@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1965@cfa253.cfa250.harvard.edu> <1066@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
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	Do not treat this as a real posting. Anyone asking for this kind of
	brute-force password breaking tool is not smart enough to be using 
	it.

	Yeah, I got a script that hacks at passwords...
	Let's see ... I'll pretend he has a personal-info database to start 
	with ... plus the time it takes the Unix login/password sequence to 
	run ... plus delays when it times out because of too many bad 
	attempts...  *** It should take about a gazillion years. 
	
	No comment for me, too ...
	Children shouldn't be alowed to play with sharp objects.
	

	Joseph Judge		postmaster@ATT.COM

Flames to /dev/null	--		Hi Cliff  - nice book you wrote!

I speak for Joseph Judge - who happens to be the postmaster for the ATT.COM
domain - not for AT&T.
	



In article <1066@idunno.Princeton.EDU> MARCELO@idunno.princeton.edu (MARCELO) writes:
>In article <1965@cfa253.cfa250.harvard.edu> cliff@cfa250.harvard.edu 
>(Cliff Stoll) writes:
>> From article <4816@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, by ronlee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jeffq):
>> jq> Is there any software for the mac (pd or not) that hacks passwords?  
>> jq> My friend crashed my hard drive and I want to get him back (hmM!) 
>> jq> so I want to hack his password and post embarassing messages 
>> jq> (not on inet mind you).  If not, how bout some type of microphone II 
>> jq> or red ryder script?  Something that has a database of possible 
>> jq> passwords and like some form of dialing setup..  
>> jq> 
>> jq> Please mail responses to:  jeffq@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us -- 
>> jq> i don't think it'd be wise to r)eply.  thanks! -jq
>> 
>> 
>> I have no comment.  
>> 
>> 
>> Cliff Stoll      cliff@cfa.harvard.edu
>
>Cliff - I would think you would have plenty to comment about.
>
>For those of you that don't know Cliff Stoll is the author of "The Cooko's 
>Egg". It was a great book about hackers and the internet. I highly 
>recomend it.
>
>
>     .. Marcelo ..
>
>marcelo@pucc.princeton.edu
>marcelo@idunno.princeton.edu