Thanks for the good pointers that a number of people gave. The particular
incident I remembered was the BARRnet one
http://www.geek-girl.com/bugtraq/1993_4/0032.html
(thanks Dan Riley).
I had no idea there had been so many, so well hushed up! MILNET, JANET (4
independent incidents in the UK in Q3 1995 alone), Panix and other ISPs,
several universities, the USENIX terminal room, ...
Some other URLs:
http://email.tqn.com/library/nus/bl110498-3.htm
http://www.chips.navy.mil/chips/archives/94_jul/file14.html
http://www.nic.mil/ftp/mgt/bul-9402.txt
I was also reminded of a paper by Nathaniel Borenstein and others at First
Virtual, about sniffing (network and keyboard) for credit card numbers
using the check digit to identify them. I haven't found the actual paper,
but it was a precursor to:
http://www.inet-one.com/cypherpunks/dir.96.01.25-96.01.31/msg00618.html
thanks
Greg.
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