[10053] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: If Orson Welles were only alive...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Sat Feb 5 05:34:15 1994
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 11:33:59 +0100 (MET)
Cc: sob@tmc.edu, karl@mcs.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199402050719.AA09556@world.std.com> from "Barry Shein" at Feb 5, 94 02:19:05 am
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
> >From the CERT advisory:
>
> >Intruders have
> >already captured access information for tens of thousands of systems
> >across the Internet.
>
> Just what does that mean? Unfortunately I think the media took the
> broadest possible interpretation of that sentence. It could have been
> nailed down better with just a modicum of effort.
I've just been interviewed by the local radio station after calling them
this morning to correct the report they were broadcasting in the morning
news. Their report was roughly:
"Today the Internet central computer was broken in to by hackers,
20'000'000 users will have to change their passwords."
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