[NOISE] Re: please stop the Mitnick stuff

Ian Goldberg iagoldbe at calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Sun Jan 7 19:29:00 PST 1996


In article <v02120d0bad14ee9ba9ef@[192.0.2.1]>,
Lucky Green <shamrock at netcom.com> wrote:
>At 21:16 1/6/96, John Young wrote:
>
>>   Also, crypto-related: The fact that Shimomura's supposedly
>>   secret files were not protected by encryption or other
>>   security is what causes Littman and others to think there
>>   was a sting (perhaps with TLA help) rather than foolish
>>   vanity of the security wizard.
>
>[I do belive this has CP relevance.]
>
>Of course it was a set-up. Mitnick got into Shimomura's computer by
>impersonating the IP address of one of Shimomura's machines. The router
>should have never let packets in from outside that have an IP address that
>is supposed to be inside. That a 'security expert' would overlook such a
>blatant and well publicized hole in his _own_ router is inconceivable.

"That word you keep using -- I do not think it means what you think it means."

   - Ian






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