Re: [Full-Disclosure] why o why did NASA do this.

From: Harry de Grote (rik.bobbaers_at_cc.kuleuven.ac.be)
Date: 10/18/04

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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:22:33 +0200

    Op Sunday 17 October 2004 16:17, Adam Jones sgreifde:
    > The majority of the list had nothing more than
    >
    > alias $name $email
    >
    > Only small parts had any more specific contact information. The emails

    and you based that on absolutely nothing at all?:
    [harry@stewie nasanames]$ for i in *; do echo $i; cat $i |grep note|wc -l; cat
    $i |grep alias|wc -l;done
    CODE-A.TXT
    39
    39
    CODE-B.TXT
    66
    66
    CODE-C.TXT
    135
    135
    CODE-D.TXT
    3
    3
    CODE-E.TXT
    33
    33
    CODE-F.TXT
    60
    60
    CODE-G.TXT
    40
    40
    CODE-H.TXT
    48
    48
    CODE-I.TXT
    75
    75
    CODE-J.TXT
    75
    75
    CODE-K.TXT
    11
    11
    CODE-L.TXT
    31
    31
    CODE-M.TXT
    114
    114
    CODE-N.TXT
    3
    3
    CODE-O.TXT
    3
    3
    CODE-P.TXT
    50
    50
    CODE-Q.TXT
    48
    48
    CODE-R.TXT
    88
    88
    CODE-S.TXT
    119
    119
    CODE-T.TXT
    3
    3
    CODE-U.TXT
    73
    73
    CODE-V.TXT
    3
    3
    CODE-W.TXT
    189
    189
    CODE-X.TXT
    9
    9
    CODE-Y.TXT
    66
    66
    CODE-Z.TXT
    20
    20
    NON-NASA.TXT
    616
    616

    > provided seem to all have been @nasa.gov anyways. (did not actually
    > search for exceptions on this other than eyeballing it) Most likely
    > any mail sent to these addresses would be filtered, especially spam.
    > It probably is not much of a security risk as calling them to say "I
    > am Brantly Hanks, Deputy Chief Engineer" would get a response of "Ok,
    > give me your employeeID number to verify you".

    i have to admit... it's pretty old and useless, but i think this may be a nice
    place for spammers to try out some new adresses... 

    -- 
harry
aka Rik Bobbaers
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Rik.Bobbaers@cc.kuleuven.ac.be -=- http://harry.ulyssis.org
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"\x57\x69\x6e\x64\x6f\x77\x73\x20\x69\x73\x20\x6c\x69\x6b\x65\x20\x61\x20\x66"
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