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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: foiling password crackers
Message-ID: <791@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 22:06:42 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  9 22:06:42 1986
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In article <879@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes:
>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.

Exactly right.  "System security" should include protection against
disruption of operations.  Funny how people keep wanting to believe
that there is a simple solution.