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Re: Need help on Hacking

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From: Jon Kaminsky
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 08:42
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In <4e1pbc$fp0@daily-planet.nodak.edu>, nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson) writes:
>imran (ia3@coventry.ac.uk) wrote:
>: Right all of u I'm Coventry Uni and need a program preferably SATAN to 
>: get to the password file any of u heard or know ehere this programme 
>: satan is give me a bell
>
>   If you can't hunt up a copy of Satan on your own, you're too stupid to 
>be messing with Unix.  What would you do once you had the password file?  
>Do you have a good cracker program and dictionaries to do 
>encrypt-and-compare against it?   Are you familiar with one-way 
>encryption at all?  Are you the product of one too many bad 'hacker' 
>movies?  Did you think "War Games" was an accurate portayal of computer 
>technology and hacking?  ;-)
>
>    Hackers are almost by definition programers or computer engineering 
>people.  Hacking is a skill, not something you download in a file.  Take 
>a programming course or two to start, perhaps read some Unix manuals.
>
>----
>Nathanael Henderson, who has hacked, cracked, poked and swiped his way 
>through enough systems and security programs, safeguards, and 
>restrictions to write a small manual (but has never NEVER done any 
>harm, to users, files, or systems.)

This looks military... definitely military.
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From: negcjfk@ibm.net  (Jon Kaminsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Re: Need help on Hacking
Date: 23 Jan 1996 08:42:11 GMT
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