Re: Is password guessing legal?

2002-10-30 Thread Major Variola (ret) 
At 07:28 PM 10/29/02 -0500, Brian McWilliams wrote:
At 04:34 PM 10/28/2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
 The e-mails were obtained earlier this month
by guessing the
login name and password

Did that Wired reporter just admit to a crime?

http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,55967,00.html

What if he did?

Then I'll know not to admit to similar.

Re: Is password guessing legal?

2002-10-29 Thread Brian McWilliams 
At 04:34 PM 10/28/2002, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

The e-mails sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] were obtained earlier this month
by first clicking on a link labeled Check your e-mail in Uruk on the
homepage of Iraq's state-controlled ISP, Uruklink.net, then guessing the
login name and password -- both of which were the same five-letter word.


Did that Wired reporter just admit to a crime?

http://wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,55967,00.html


What if he did?

B.