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1997-06-24 - Re: Impact of Netscape kernel hole (fwd)

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From: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk (Paul Bradley)
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Message ID: <199706141751.MAA24746@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970614112312.1213B-100000@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
UTC Datetime: 1997-06-24 03:21:57 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:21:57 +0800

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From: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:21:57 +0800
To: paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk (Paul Bradley)
Subject: Re: Impact of Netscape kernel hole (fwd)
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Paul Bradley wrote:
> Joe "slightly crypto-savvy pgp user" sixpack keeps his pgp keyring in 
> c:\pgp on a dos/w95 box. The average user of any of the unices keeps his 
> keyring in /usr/pgp or /usr/local/pgp it does not take a lot of attempts 
> to go through most of the common places.
> 
> The very same guy probably has a password that is:
> 
> A. FRED (notice how close the letters are, this is a real dumb-ass 
> password of the century)
> 
> B. His wifes name
> 
> C. Her birthday
> 
> D. The name of his favourite film or some character from it...
> 
> Can you say "dictionary attack"???. 

Can you say "idiots have to pay"?

	- Igor.

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