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From: bryan@intellistor.com (John Bryan)
Subject: Re: Hacking and "Amateurism"
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.214925.9547@intellistor.com>
Keywords: WARNING!
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References: <1991Mar26.015635.23103@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Mar26.163720.28379@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <1991Mar27.041126.9886@news.miami.edu> <1916@hpwala.wal.hp.com>
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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 91 21:49:25 GMT

In <1916@hpwala.wal.hp.com> lupienj@hpwadac.hp.com (John Lupien) writes:

>In article <1991Mar27.094325.24599@en.ecn.purdue.edu> kidder@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Mark Stephen Kidder) writes:
>>PS I learned earlier from another that UNIX does not use a DES
>>   encryption method for the password; however, a one-way method
>>   is used making decoding a password impossible.
>                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^
>To borrow a phrase from one of those "Airplane" movies, "You use that
>word a lot. I don't think it means what you think it means."
>
> ... [ deleted ] ...
>
>---
>John R. Lupien
>lupienj@hpwarq.hp.com

I can't resist. The movie in question is "The Princess Bride", not any
of the Airplane movies. And the word in question there was "inconceivable!"

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