[45264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone here from Microsoft? Hacked?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Fri Jan 25 12:59:57 2002
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:00:41 -0500
From: David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com>
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Paul Timmins wrote:
>
> umm, notice that domain name? See that @ sign? Anything before it
> is sent as a username, which is generally ignored unless requested.
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled network operations
> discussion and flamewars.
Reminds me of an old joke when I was in college. I used to have this in
my .signature:
Free UNIX accounts. Telnet to 127.0.0.1. Use your existing
user ID and password to login.
I got a lot of mail from concerned-but-clueless people warning me that
this may be a criminal trying to harvest passwords.
Of course, the joke is far less effective today, when most people on the
internet are not using UNIX systems.
-- David
