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From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Dangerous hole in Usenet!
Message-ID: <1227@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 02:46:28 GMT
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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It has come to my attention the there is a MAJOR hole created by the way
many sites administer their machines.  This hole presents an opportunity
for ANYONE on the net to do severe damage to your system.  For other sites
the hole is smaller, but still presents an opportunity for mischief.

I will send mail to anyone who is interested.  I will ONLY send it to the
user "news" at your system.  I wish I didn't have to be so cryptic, but I
don't want to give anyone ideas.
-- 
Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov