Re: Spanish Dict.

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From: Alan J Rosenthal
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 03:18

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jherndo@eis.calstate.edu (John Herndon) writes:
>	If you were to read a little more carefully, you would see.. that
>once the password was CHANGED to posting would then occur.  Posting of the
>OLD password.

Gosh, he's serious.

Suppose this is still my password on another system?  Suppose this is still the
password of another account of mine on the same system (even easier to research
via "finger")?

Suppose my last five passwords were "zxq1qq#$%?", "zxq2qq#$%?", "zxq3qq#$%?",
"zxq4qq#$%?", and "zxq5qq#$%?"?  Or even suppose they were "applepear",
"orangeplum", and "peachapricot"?  In the first case you can predict the next
password; in the second case your search space is drastically reduced.

Suppose my buddy's name is "fred" and my password is "zxfredcvb"?  Perhaps his
is "zxalancvb"!

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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Spanish Dict.
Message-ID: <1992Nov3.221759.6569@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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Date: 4 Nov 92 03:18:00 GMT
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