PASSWORD GUESSING (is trivial)

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Fri Aug 25 03:30:27 AEST 1989


In article <712 at texsun.Central.Sun.COM> jthomp at hemaneh.Central.Sun.COM
(Jim Thompson  Sun Dallas IR) writes:
>Also, remember that when the Internet worm strode forth last Nov,
>it was as interested in 'ordinary Joe' passwords as others.  It 'used'
>the information gained about your password on 'this' system to attempt
>gaining access to 'that' system.

Nope.

It could have, but the code to do that was not present.
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