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From: rh@mit-eddie.UUCP (Randy Haskins)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.micro,net.legal
Subject: Re: Computer Bulletin Board Confiscated
Message-ID: <1941@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-May-84 19:25:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1941
Posted: Fri May 25 19:25:48 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 28-May-84 05:42:20 EDT
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How would any of you people feel if (somehow, it doesn't matter how
it happened...) the superuser password for your system appeared on
one of these BBoards (along with dial-in numbers)?  We still have
a rash of children with TRaSh-80's calling up our DEC-20 trying to
break in (fortunately, it's a little tougher than most people could
manage).  This started about January when some of our phone numbers
appeared on a TRaSh-80 BBoard that someone locally was running.  If
someone had managed to crack our system, they couldn't have done
too much damage, just made a few people who were taking courses
lose work, you know, little trivial things like that (extreme
sarcasm mode).  Yeah, yeah, I know, we should make our system breakin
proof.  Well, it practically is, but I think it's just a bit annoying
that these little BBoards can be used to spread information that
probably shouldn't be spread.  Also, how would you like it if on
one of them your home address and the type of lock on your front
door (including techniques for breaking same) appeared?  Someone
should be held responsible for the BBoard....
-- 
Randwulf  (Randy Haskins);  Path= genrad!mit-eddie!rh