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From: jet@navier.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
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Subject: Who do I complain to at CalTech about xnet.caltech.edu?
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Date: 28 Jun 91 01:29:57 GMT
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Hiya.

We've been having some break-in problems at UH, and I've had great
success tracing things *until* recently, thanks to xnet.caltech.edu.

This wonderful device (apparently some sort of terminal server) allows one
to telnet in, and back out again, and provides *no* information to outside
users.  Traces to people on the other side of xnet.caltech.edu end at that
device.

Who can I talk to at CalTech about this device?  It's obviously
a gaping security hole as far as NSFnet is concerned, should I
go to them?  Or can I assume that this is just a new device put
on line, and nobody's bothered to lock out incoming telnet sessions.

--
J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126
Systems Wrangler, University of Houston Department of Mathematics
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