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Subject: Re: fairly recent web server compromise...
From: peter @ nmti . com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 10:12:12 -0600 (CST)
To: brain21 @ montag33 . residence . gatech . edu (Brain21)
Cc: jna @ echonyc . com, dufresne @ winternet . com, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . LNX . 3 . 91 . 951108004856 . 26714E-100000 @ montag33 . residence . gatech . edu> from "Brain21" at Nov 8, 95 00:52:00 am

> > It's highly debatable if the machine was really compromised, or if it was 
> > a publicity stunt on the part of MGM/UMA. 

> I don't think that it was a publicity stunt.  The rumors going around 
> were that ILF (Internet Liberation Front) did it.  I seriously doubt that 
> anyone at MGM/UA has ever heard enough about ILF to start rumors about 
> them.  They would prolly not be wise to do so anyway.

Nah, what they apparently did was deliberately leave a hole and hope some
crackers snuck in. They lucked out.


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