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Article #187Re: System "pleasure.com"
From: Alan Coopersmith
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 05:38
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 05:38
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In article <64189@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt5870c@prism.gatech.EDU (Noah White) writes: )In article <1992Jul23.144712.547@ulowell.ulowell.edu> oneill@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian 'Doc' O'Neill) writes: )> )>This site appears to a BBS for erotica gifs and such, which may violate some )>of the regulations of some networks. Apparently a user can have that system )>ftp files to their own account, which is why I see the FTP connections. )>however I am concerned about the methods used to do this, as it may require )>the divluging of the users password. )> ) )Oh well oh it does not require divulging )passwords because the SYSADMIN there is the one who takes the FTP requests. Wait a minute...if I log in to pleasure.com and ask the sysadmin to put a file in my account here, how is he going to get into my account here without divulging my password? Or am I misunderstanding what's happening? )---- )I hope our stupid inews likes the amount of "new" text this time. (Try replacing the >'s at the beginning of the line with something else, say }'s or )'s....) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alan Coopersmith Internet: alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley Bitnet: alanc@UCBOCF.BITNET
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!alanc From: alanc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Alan Coopersmith) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: System "pleasure.com" Message-ID: <14qpc7INNore@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 25 Jul 92 05:38:15 GMT References: <1992Jul23.144712.547@ulowell.ulowell.edu> <64189@hydra.gatech.EDU> Organization: U.C. Bezerkeley Overloaded Computing Facility Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: hailstorm.berkeley.edu