Text written by Richard Letts at 12:38 AM 3/31/99 +0100:
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>I use a disk image built for use in a student lab on the NT machine in
>my ofice at work. most unixes don't ship secure out of the box, why should
>anything else?
Heck, most Unices ship with *Sendmail* out of the box. How good is *that*
for security? :)
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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>From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
cracking /n./
The act of breaking into a computer system; what a cracker does.
Contrary to widespread myth, this does not usually involve some
mysterious leap of hackerly brilliance, but rather persistence and
the dogged repetition of a handful of fairly well-known tricks that
exploit common weaknesses in the security of target systems. Accord-
ingly, most crackers are only mediocre hackers.
