🚀 go-pugleaf

There seems to be some massively different trains of thought going on here.
The statement from before:

	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

could mean he cracked the root password by the password being a dictionary
word, or it could mean he cracked someone else's password, got into the
system, and used an unmentioned hole in the system.

What is unclear is whether or not the root password was determined directly
by the cracking (which would mean the systems allowed root logins over the
network, UNLESS...) *OR* the root password was begotten by breaking in to
someone else's account, becoming root and giving 'root' a new one.

To *me* it seems the root password was determined because it was guessed by
the cracking software.  To *me* it means they allowed root logins over the
network.

I didn't see any claims or mention anywhere about someone figuring out a way
to decrypt DES encryption -- and I too don't believe it anyway.
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Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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How doth the little crocodile
    Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
    On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
    How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in,
    With gently smiling jaws!