In message <01BAFEAE.63BB64E0@loki>, Brian Gorka wrote:
On Monday, February 19, 1996 4:32 AM, Andy Brown[SMTP:a.brown@nexor.co.uk] wrote:
http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/win32/codedrag/codedrag.htm
Haven't tried it myself since I don't use Windows 95, just thought I'd report what I saw.
I downloaded this, AND installed it. It displays your password right on the screen!!! No *s, no blind typing. Anyone looking over ytour shoulder can see what you type as your passphrase! Come on.
Aha! but what you didn't know was that it was FV's card number sniffer, and their obviously competent programmer needed another four weeks to get the '*'s to come up... One has to wonder about the security of binaries random people put up especially for closed systems such as Win96 don't you? -- Packrat (BSc/BE;COSO;Wombat Admin) Nihil illegitemi carborvndvm.