On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:19:35 +0100 (CET), Petri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Gregory J. Feig wrote:
>> petri .......yeah....but read Sergei's last-night post about cracking
>> and getting a couple thousand creditcard numbers, et al, because
>> the server had them stored in the clear.......Roger Turk would echo
>> me when I say, "any secure system can be blown by stupidity."
>> It sounds like a small replay of "The Cuckoo's Egg"//
> I suppose you didn't recieve my reply, when I said I believed in sysadmins
> making that something that would never happen? Anyway, if a sysadmin is
> clever (which Sergeis weren't, poor CC users), a) you have a hard time
> breaking in b) the numbers are stored in an encrypted form b) they are
> moved to some non-networked box that is used to store secrets, after some
> time.
petri ......you're right...I didn't see your reply until after I had
sent this.....I see this sometimes in my mail, where older messages
come in after newer messages....or something.....it isn't a big
problem, so I just ignore it...
gregy
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