but even after you get through the firewall, you still need to crack the web host. i suppose that anyone that would leave their firewall open would not have very good security on their hosts either. -paul
From cypherpunks-errors@toad.com Wed Oct 9 07:02:07 1996 To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Re: Recent Web site cracks From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM) Comments: Dole/Kemp '96! Date: Tue, 08 Oct 96 16:53:43 EDT Organization: Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y. Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Content-Length: 307
stewarts@ix.netcom.com writes:
The DOJ and CIA sites were actually cracked; don't know the mechanisms.
They used firewalls that are known to be easily crackable.
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