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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: foiling password crackers
Message-ID: <879@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 23:03:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 23:03:31 1986
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Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles
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Turning off the ability to successfully login on a dialup line (even
only for awhile) seems like a good way to allow password crackers
to tangle up enough dialup lines to make it hard for legit users
to log in.  There are people who would just love doing things like
that just to cause trouble.

--Lauren--