Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:487 news.misc:1108 soc.women:8712 soc.men:2314 alt.flame:1222 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdahl!ames!husc6!mit-eddie!wisner From: wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.misc,soc.women,soc.men,alt.flame Subject: Re: here potty potty potty Message-ID: <7855@eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: 10 Jan 88 07:20:38 GMT References: <22493@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner) Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA Lines: 9 The articles from new@killer and bitch@chinet were not forgeries, but rather authentic articles from not-so-authentic accounts. new@killer was a breakin on that account - I do now know this as a fact personally, but I am acquainted with the administrator of killer. bitch@chinet was a real user - chinet runs software which will automatically create an account for anybody who bothers to call. bitch then walked through a loophole in the system's news posting security. ..bill