bob@primesun.uucp (10/30/85)
. 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?
ejb@think.ARPA (Erik Bailey) (11/01/85)
In article <428@primesun.uucp> bob@primesun.uucp writes: >. > >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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ -_ Erik Bailey -- 7 Oak Knoll (USENET courtesy of ihnp4!godot!ejb Arlington, MA 02174 Thinking Machines Corp. ejb@think.com.arpa (617) 643-0732 Cambridge, MA) "I was walking in a forest one day and a tree fell in front of me, and I didn't hear it." _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _- _-