17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Robert Hettinga wrote:
Somebody evidently installed the Mersienne(sp?) prime search client on 2000+ AT&T machines.
The local talk station news has a report that they have just been apprehended and will be prosecuted for it.
Mersenne. Perhaps the company should be grateful that someone has helped to spot a hole in security, since the hacker has apparently done no really serious damages except computing time. M. K. Shen