Canceled messages
Erik Bailey
ejb at think.ARPA
Fri Nov 1 07:44:53 AEST 1985
In article <428 at primesun.uucp> bob at primesun.uucp writes:
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>
>We've just received about 14 messages in a row for net.sources which had
>a CANCEL subject line and whose text was simply "inapropriate newsgroup".
>
>What's going on?
NEW YORK TIMES:
Teenage hackers strike again!
In a harrowing incident on the worldwide network of UNIX machines, known
as USENET, there has been overwhelming evidence of (fanfare) TEENAGE
HACKERS! Thousands of messages of the type:
<XXXXXXXXXXX.XXXX>
Innapropriate news group
We can only assume that these are a coverup for the REAL DAMAGE these
insolent brats have caused. Mr. Oliver Wendell, a world-wide leader in
the subject of breaking into systems, reports that:
"the teens may well have smashed through national security at the NORAD
base in Cheyenne Mt., and slowly worked their way via comandeered
satellite to a USENET gateway. Here, drinking cased of salvaged Old
Coke, they maliciously logged in as 'anonymous', and broke through all
standard UNIX defenses, to the point of becoming the so-called
'super-user'. From here it was a trivial matter simply to execute Pnews
and wreak havok with USENET. HOWEVER - the site had just implemented a
new version of Pnews, with advanced AI facilities. When it saw the work
IBM-PC in a msg directed to net.unix-wizards, it IMMEDIATELY fired off a
msg to net.news reporting that an incorrect newsgroup had been used."
"But Mr. Wendell - the messages appeared in net.sources!"
"@$@"^$*{@$^*) systems programmers!"
*** The end ***
[ PS - no more msgs on this, UNLESS you have a real answer. Sorry for
cluttering up net.sources like this, but I couldn't resist...]
--
Erik Bailey
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