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From: u3369429@murdu.OZ (Michael Bednarek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: *** Important message ***
Message-ID: <1280@murdu.OZ>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 22:37:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: murdu.1280
Posted: Mon Aug  3 22:37:02 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Aug-87 00:54:53 EDT
References: <8708030937.AA27261@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Followup-To: comp.os.vms
Distribution: world
Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University
Lines: 28
Keywords: crackers Trojan PHONEPAT
Summary: Check Stefan Weirauch's PHONEPAT

In article <8708030937.AA27261@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> OMOND@EMBL.BITNET (Roy Omond) writes:
>Fellow System Managers,
>take heed of the following saga.
>[ ... ]
>Two persons with known connections with the Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg
>who I know have distributed the patches mentioned above (and in my opinion
>are to be considered along with the lowest dregs of society) I will name
>here :
>
>        Claus Traenkner (at our own outstation of the EMBL in Hamburg)
>and     Stefan Weirauch (at the Univ. of Karlsruhe)

I knew I had seen this name before, and (using rn) the command ?weirauch?ra
showed article <8707221338.AA29452@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> which is a patch
to PHONE. The date was 21-Jul-1987.

In the light of Roy's experience you might want to examine the nature of that
patch.


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