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From: booth@antique.UUCP (David Booth)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: VMS password *cracker* -- not "hacker"
Message-ID: <2102@antique.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 16:54:05 GMT
References: <1315@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: booth@antique.UUCP (David Booth)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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	From: ecs140w020@deneb.ucdavis.edu

	Bunkersoft of Mountain View has a VMS password hacker . . . .
	The method used is a brute force attack.  . . . .

Please, this is more appropriately called a password *cracker* --
analogous to a safe cracker.  Many of us have been hacking, i.e.
seat-of-the-pants programming -- not breaking into computers -- for
years.

		Thanks,
		David Booth
	Arpanet: booth@vax135.att.com
	UUCP: {harvard, seismo, ucbvax}!vax135!booth