[12899] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: True or Spam Hoax?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesse M. Caulfield)
Wed Oct 15 20:43:19 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:43:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jesse M. Caulfield" <jesse@netthink.com>
To: Neil Villacorta <neilv@metacreations.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, mac_the_knife@macweek.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971015163008.12845B-100000@vectorfx.metacreations.com>
I've always said:
Believe the rumors, no matter how silly they sound, cause the
alternatives are...well...less interesting.
As far as this hoax, I say "Sure! Store the whole disk in a hard to
find cookie. Why not?" And sure, any super cracker would need
sufficient time to find it. Why, it took my "master programming" STAFF
nearly _three_ weeks to find c:\windows\cookies (!)
And what a cookie AOL4 must place to have access to the entire hard
drive. The wookie of all cookies!
Best! ;-)
Jesse
> master programmer, copied the finished portion of the new version (Then
> 'Build 52'), and took it home, and we spent nearly 2 weeks of sleepless
> nights examining and debugging the program, flipping it inside-out, and
<snip>
> definition). However, the cookie we found on Version 4.0 was far
> more treacherous than the simple internet cookie. How would you like
> somebody looking at your entire hard drive, snooping through any
<snip>
