[46738] in Cypherpunks
[NOISE] Re: please stop the Mitnick stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Goldberg)
Sun Jan 7 22:21:19 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: iagoldbe@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ian Goldberg)
Date: 7 Jan 1996 22:09:55 -0500
Reply-To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu
In article <v02120d0bad14ee9ba9ef@[192.0.2.1]>,
Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> wrote:
>At 21:16 1/6/96, John Young wrote:
>
>> Also, crypto-related: The fact that Shimomura's supposedly
>> secret files were not protected by encryption or other
>> security is what causes Littman and others to think there
>> was a sting (perhaps with TLA help) rather than foolish
>> vanity of the security wizard.
>
>[I do belive this has CP relevance.]
>
>Of course it was a set-up. Mitnick got into Shimomura's computer by
>impersonating the IP address of one of Shimomura's machines. The router
>should have never let packets in from outside that have an IP address that
>is supposed to be inside. That a 'security expert' would overlook such a
>blatant and well publicized hole in his _own_ router is inconceivable.
"That word you keep using -- I do not think it means what you think it means."
- Ian
