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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Dutch Hackers
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.211826.16707@kithrup.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 91 21:18:26 GMT
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In article <27495@hydra.gatech.EDU> jb107@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Burns) writes:
>in article <1991Apr23.013425.3461@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, boaz@CONCERTO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Boaz Ben-Zvi) says:
>> It has then been possible to play
>> this information back and gain an exact picture of the computer screen as it
>> appeared to the intruders in the Netherlands.
>*This* is a hell of a lot scarier than what the Dutch are doing!

Repeat after me:  a networked computer is an insecure computer.

(No, not completely and always true, but given the current state-of-affairs,
it's not that difficult to get into someone's machine.  All you need to do
is monitor internat packets for a while, and figure out what the person was
typing.  Bad, bad, bad.  I believe kerberos encrypts passwords locally, and
sends out the encrypted password, which is *much* better.)

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