Re: HAAALP! What is wrong with the Detroit Freenet?!?!?!?!

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From: Domenico De Vitto {spider}
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 17:03

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Brian Westphal (westphal@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu) wrote:
: The Army isn't at all nervous about this.  The FreeNet machine is not 
: connected to any Army machines.  They've said so in the local 
: newspapers.  The problem is that a hacker broke through the FreeNet 
: security and just about destroyed it.  This person knew what he needed to 
: delete to get the system to crash, and make it hard to recover.  There 
: have been several stories in the Detroit Free Press on it.  The folks at 
: the FreeNet admit to being lax on security because they didn't think 
: anyone would want to hack on a system that gives access to everybody.  
: Unfortunately, they didn't understand the psychology of hackers.
							 ^^^^^^^^^
Some hackers.

Dom

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From: ddv@unix.brighton.ac.uk ( Domenico De Vitto        {spider})
Subject: Re: HAAALP!  What is wrong with the Detroit Freenet?!?!?!?!
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