[91704] in Cypherpunks
RE: On Air
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Thu Dec 11 00:40:57 1997
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 21:09:22 -0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
>From: "Nightline, News MS" <NITELINE@abc.com>
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>Subject: RE: On Air
>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 13:32:00 -0500
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>>from =3D schear@lvdi.net
>last_name =3D Schear
>subj =3D On Air
>first_name =3D Steve
>Question =3D Re: Dec 8, Revolution in a Box, Part 11
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>The number trotted out on your show of 100,000 penetrations, or
>attempted penetrations, of Pentagon computers as an indication of poor
>security is misleading. If you had taken the time to dig behind these
>numbers you would have found that most all of these intrusions, or
>attempts, were against DoD computer systems connected to public networks
>(e.g., Web sites) containing no secret information and with minimal
>security provisions.
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>100,000 certainly sounds like a major problem. Suggest you check you
>facts first, next time and scale your numbers appropriately.
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>Steve Schear
>CEO
>First ECache Corp.
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