On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:03:29PM -0800, Petro wrote:
| Permanently behind on my email:
|
| On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:22:41PM -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
| > I'm trying to remember details (author, title) of a short story that I
| > read once. Its main feature, or the one that's standing out in my
| > mind, is the obsessive hacker who studies a target to figure out his
| > password, at which he only has one guess. The zinger is that the very
| > security concious target has selected that password as a booby trap,
| > and there's a second password which our hacker doesn't have.
| > Does this ring a bell for anyone?
|
| Yes--except that the password wasn't a booby trap, what the user did
| was to aways enter a wrong password first, then the right password.
|
| In the story the password guesser was an adult in (IIRC) a 5 year
| olds body, and his partner in this crime had his brain burned out by
| certain Organized Crime individuals who were not happy with the
| passports the password theft made possible.
|
| It was either in an anthology of William Gibsons work, or in an
| anthology of cyberpunk stuff from the 80s or early 90s.
|
| Sorry I can't remember any more.
Dogwalker, Orson Scott Card. But thanks!
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
