On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:03:29PM -0800, Petro wrote: | Permanently behind on my email: | | On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:22:41PM -0500, Adam Shostack wrote: | > I'm trying to remember details (author, title) of a short story that I | > read once. Its main feature, or the one that's standing out in my | > mind, is the obsessive hacker who studies a target to figure out his | > password, at which he only has one guess. The zinger is that the very | > security concious target has selected that password as a booby trap, | > and there's a second password which our hacker doesn't have. | > Does this ring a bell for anyone? | | Yes--except that the password wasn't a booby trap, what the user did | was to aways enter a wrong password first, then the right password. | | In the story the password guesser was an adult in (IIRC) a 5 year | olds body, and his partner in this crime had his brain burned out by | certain Organized Crime individuals who were not happy with the | passports the password theft made possible. | | It was either in an anthology of William Gibsons work, or in an | anthology of cyberpunk stuff from the 80s or early 90s. | | Sorry I can't remember any more.
Dogwalker, Orson Scott Card. But thanks! Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume