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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX security and passwords
Message-ID: <5311@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 89 16:23:03 GMT
References: <23731@pprg.unm.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <23731@pprg.unm.edu> kurt@pprg.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga) writes:
>I've been following this discussion with some amazement.  I've
>been managing computers for about eight years and have seen
>hundreds of security incidents first hand.

It's worth noting that the only security breaches you saw were the
ones in which the intruder failed to cover up his tracks.

The successful intruder's modus operandi never gets analyzed
because the intrusion is never detected.