Re: Two hackers caught tapping into Boeing, federal computers

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From: Nick C De Mello
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:20

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>>>Any org. that has a _root_ password in _a_ dictionary gets all it deserves.
>>
>>They didn't explicitly say that they cracked the root password. 
>
>>>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
>
>If decrypting the passwords gave him the root password, then yes, Dave,
>they cracked the root password.

  Oh, come on... what do you think is more likely: these two kids
broke the DES encryption scheme, or the newspaper confused decrypting
with running the encryption on a /usr/dict/words file and greping
it with the /passwd file.
  I'll grant you they cracked the root, and thus system, but unless
I see some more details I'm going to be really skeptical of claims
they came up with the inverse DES function.

                                      -- Nick


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