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From: learn@ddsw1.MCS.COM (William Vajk)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: sysop liability/responsibility
Message-ID: <1991May26.192145.14175@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 26 May 91 19:21:45 GMT
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In article <419@netxcom.netx.com> jcomer@netxcom.netx.com (Jeff Comer) writes:

>In article <BROWN.91May20115025@duncan.cs.utk.edu> (Lance A. Brown) writes:

>>This guy somehow managed to get a-hold of passwords for some users on the
>>largest local BBS's.

>Any idea of how the agent managed to steal the passwords? 

I have a feeling that "agents" of more than one sort do manage to steal
passwords, some of them quite regularly with little effort.

System igloo was "broken into" by such means this year. The details were
forwarded to every individual and group who might be interested, with the
concensus that there was actually little to be done.

Personally, I KNOW exactly who it was.

Bill Vajk