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Subject: Re: Mitnick & the TCP Sequence Number Attack on Shimomura (LONG
From: Mike Tighe <tighe @ spectrum . titan . com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 09:10:36 -0600 (CST)
To: Scott_Rickard @ mc . xerox . com (Rickard, Scott)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, brain21 @ montag33 . residence . gatech . edu, jya @ pipeline . com, frankw @ in . net
In-reply-to: <"<7124F430819C2976>7124F430819C2976 @ x-mc-xrx2-ms3 . xerox"@-SMF-> from "Rickard,Scott" at Jan 10, 96 12:39:33 pm
Reply-to: tighe @ spectrum . titan . com

Rickard,Scott writes:

>>I would like to know this... if Shimomura is so good (an I actually
>>believe that he may be) then why did he leave the r-utils enabled?  Why
>>did he not use TCPWrappers to prevent spoofing?  Why did he allow people
>>to see inside his network (Mitnick saw that there was a machine
>>"X-something" that he believed was trusted by Shimomura's machine)?

Obviously there were some holes in his system that should have been
plugged, but that does not mean it was his responsibility to have fixed
them?



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