[TriLUG] MASSIVE SECURITY BREACH

[William Sutton]

I'm truly sorry if I sound stupid about this (and no doubt Magnus and 
others will be more than happy to let me know), but:

What part of "don't use an important password" got lost in the translation 
between American and Canadian?  Seriously!

This is a bloody email list, not the root login for a nuclear monitoring 
system at Los Alamos.  If you are using your important logins everywhere 
including email lists, perhaps you need to 1. use better login 
compartmentalization, 2. pay attention to the TOS for the service you are 
using, and 3. excercise a little restraint before playing Chicken Little.

William

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Stanley A. Schultz wrote:

> Ian and All:
> 
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Ian Meyer wrote:
> 
> > "WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING? WHERE DO YOU KEEP YOUR BRAINS ANYWAY?"
> >
> > I can be tempted to say the same thing to people that freak out, yet
> > broadcast their email, 3 phone numbers and a fax in plaintext.
> 
> Neither my E-mail address nor any of the phone numbers, not even the FAX
> number would allow someone with less than honorable intentions to crack
> the campus system. Broadcasting a password associated with a name clearly
> does.
> 
> 
> 
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