[102708] in Cypherpunks
Re: Mersienne crack busted...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mok-Kong Shen)
Tue Sep 15 15:12:34 1998
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:47:09 +0100
From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
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
