Kingsly John rearranged electrons thusly:
> On Sun, 6 May 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> | VSNL tried something similar ... a menu / lynx based and restricted shell.
> | Didnt work too well, if y'all remember :)
> yeah it was fun... you could get the /etc/passwd file with all the users
> realnames addresses and phone numbers! and ofcourse e-mail addresses! (too
> bad they were smart enough to use shadow passwds! or did it come out of
> the box ?? ;-)
Out of the box. However, a little social engineering was more than enough to
get lots of passwords, given that all the other contact info was easily
available. This is one reason why so many idiots keep spamming lists of vsnl
users. Speaking of that, the worst ones so far are:
extractsoft / extractsoft1 / samtec (@roltanet.com, @zeenext.com, @now-india.net.in)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[....]
A partial list - these and many more have pride of place in about a dozen
access.dbs I maintain :)
-s
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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