From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 93 10:14:33 PST
To: wex@media.mit.edu (Alan)
Subject: Re: hohocon
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> Problem: how much trust do you have for a temporary site set up to give
> Internet access?  Can you assure yourself they're not capturing your telnets
> and remote logins?
> 
> At a recent SF con I attended, there was a rumor going around to the effect
> that the admin was doing just this.  I found the idea disturbing but
> eminently plausible.
> 
> --Alan Wexelblat, Reality Hacker, Author, and Cyberspace Bard

We believe this happened recently at the Hackers Conference
(surprise!), when Internet access was provided on a machine that was
later found to have been cracked by someone.

--Tim May


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