Re: Network Hacking
From: Privacy, please (no.spam@wanted.here)
Date: 02/24/03
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From: "Privacy, please" <no.spam@wanted.here> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 11:37:51 -0500
"Rabid_Roach" <no@spam.all> wrote in message
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> > Nope... I personally don't hack. I didn't even take up a former
> professor's
> > offer that anybody who could break the encryption on his grading program
> > would get an automatic A in the course. Nice and weaselly way of
thinking
> > though... when logic fails attack the presenter.
>
> Just trying to figure out why you automitacally want to attack the admin
> knowing nothing about him
> or the network. There must be a reason somewhere.
Because as somebody brought up earlier, too often the admin is somebody who
happened to be wandering down the hall when somebody else was saying "Hey!
Let's get an admin! How hard can it be to do the job?"
> > That bit about stealing administrator passwords was pretty silly: a good
> > network only has a couple of administrator accounts anyways.
>
> Now whay do you say that's silly?
> The original posted said, and I quote
> "There grades are based on how many administrative passwords they are able
> to obtain."
>
> You think the professor is silly for assigining the students the task?
> or the admins are silly for having more then 1 admin password?
The admins are silly if they have more than two or three admin passwords.
Basic a grade on the ability to collect them means that each password is
going to be worth rediculous points.
> Any admin who would setup a network with only 1 admin password would not
be
> silly, he would be an idiot.
True. But the assignment makes it sound as if admin passwords are as common
as mushrooms. Any admin who sets up a network with 20 or 30 admin passwords
is even worse.
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