[82356] in Cypherpunks
Re: Impact of Netscape kernel hole (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Mon Jun 23 23:58:39 1997
To: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk (Paul Bradley)
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 12:51:42 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970614112312.1213B-100000@fatmans.demon.co.uk> from "Paul Bradley" at Jun 14, 97 11:37:31 am
From: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Reply-To: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Paul Bradley wrote:
> Joe "slightly crypto-savvy pgp user" sixpack keeps his pgp keyring in
> c:\pgp on a dos/w95 box. The average user of any of the unices keeps his
> keyring in /usr/pgp or /usr/local/pgp it does not take a lot of attempts
> to go through most of the common places.
>
> The very same guy probably has a password that is:
>
> A. FRED (notice how close the letters are, this is a real dumb-ass
> password of the century)
>
> B. His wifes name
>
> C. Her birthday
>
> D. The name of his favourite film or some character from it...
>
> Can you say "dictionary attack"???.
Can you say "idiots have to pay"?
- Igor.
