🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <6pq1n6h@rpi.edu> fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
[ brian's request deleted ... ]
>UPI writes:
>>
>>	SEATTLE (UPI) -- U.S. attorneys late Tuesday arrested and charged two
>>young men with ``hacking'' their way into computer systems operated by
>>Boeing, the U.S. District Court and the Environmental Protection Agency
>>offices in Seattle.
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>>	``Once the system was accessed, Anderson copied the file containing
>>the passwords controlling access to the computer system,'' an affidavit
>>filed with the charges stated. ``He then transferred the password file
>>to a Boeing Company computer, where he decrypted the passwords.''
>>	That process gave Anderson the ``root'' password, which allowed him
>>to have unrestricted access to the computer system at the courthouse,
>>the affidavit said. Once inside, it said, ``the hackers were able to
[ rest of story deleted ]

I would certainly hope that by now system administrators would know better
than to pick words which appear in numerous dictionaries as their privledged
passwords.

--eric
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