hooopsss.....
hacking , cracking , and crack-king but i agree with UK that system
administrators should be aware of this fact and anybody who brings this out in
open is not necesaarily showing off , rather he may be amazed to find that
perfectly text book examples of "security holes" are still
persisting in the system. and these days u need not be an expert to do this adds
to the fact that people should be aware that such things happen.( net is full of
passwd-matching and buffer-overflow programs). one interesting deviation at this
point, password crackers use
dictionary to match words, and in india on any big system u just use a
dictionary of 200
words including manisha , kajol , ganesh , shankar , sai baba , sachin ,
pooja,ganga , jamuma
hanuman ............. and u can come up with 40 passwds in 4 minutes. same
login same passwd also constitute a good percentage usually of people in high
authority ( Directors , professors who seldom use their login for their own
purpose)
so good to bring out the subject in open. but if anybody is planning to hack any
site then i am not sending this mail .. ;o)
UK Jaiswal wrote:
> I do NOT advocate cracking BUT we should appreciate the fact that Sibayan
> was honest with sharing his knowledge/experience. I am sure he never had any
> evil intentions and if he had any, he would never have come out in this
> forum sharing his knowlege. With root access to VSNL's server and wrong
> intentions, he could have done much harm which I am sure he never did.
> Having knowlege is one thing and misusing that knowlege is another. I
> beleive that good system administrators should know more about cracking so
> that they can take care of all such security issues on their servers.
> Yes, Suresh may be right that this might not be the proper forum to discuss
> cracking where we basically discuss installation and other problems related
> to Linux.
> A good Policeman HAS to know different tricks/methods used by thieves to
> effectively stop them ;-)
> So let us not be so harsh to Sibayan this time.
> Excuse me Suresh if you think that I am wrong.
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