[45265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone here from Microsoft? Hacked?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Fri Jan 25 13:23:33 2002
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:22:51 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <3C519D49.C9C165B3@marconi.com>; from David.Charlap@marconi.com on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 01:00:41PM -0500
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On 01/25/02, David Charlap <David.Charlap@marconi.com> wrote:
> 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.
There was a pretty impressive warez network running on that
IP address for a while, too.
The slogan was "everything we have is yours."
--
J.D. Falk "Whom can you ask
<jdfalk@cybernothing.org> what you came to make happen in this world?"
-- Rob Brezny, adapted from Pablo Naruda
