Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site tilt.FUN
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!tilt!chenr
From: chenr@tilt.FUN (Ray Chen)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Prefix numbers, or how to destroy a federation starship
Message-ID: <300@tilt.FUN>
Date: Fri, 31-May-85 01:42:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: tilt.300
Posted: Fri May 31 01:42:13 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 00:11:14 EDT
References: <297@tilt.FUN> <342@moncol.UUCP> <299@tilt.FUN>
Reply-To: chenr@tilt.UUCP (Ray Chen)
Organization: Princeton University EECS Dept
Lines: 9
Summary: 

Regarding prefix numbers.  They are a security risk only if you're
stupid enough to let your ship's computer listen and respond to
incoming transmissions.  Presumably, there's some sort of "worm-filter"
or "listen-only" computer mode that high-ranking officers would know
how to turn on if they suspected that someone was about to use prefix
numbers to hose over their ship.

	Ray Chen
	princeton!tilt!chenr