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From: Paul B. Mattewson on 16 Jun 2010 17:20
On 06/01/2010 03:55 PM, The Translucent Amoebae wrote:
> i thought that it was impossible to delete a post from The UserNet
> ( News Groups )
> But i am absolutely certain that i posted an inquiry about Gary
> McKinnon a week or so ago,
> And now i can't find any trace of it...!!!

I have it on my system but there is no answer.

> hmmmm....???
>
> Anyways;
> What i was curious about was;
> How would someone ( in the most general terms ) hack into a Government
> Website that is Ostensibly Supposed to be Secure from UnAuthorized
> Personal...?

You can read the Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll. Stoll is a good writer
and he tells his story of how one fine day he decided to find out what
were those few unpaid for minutes on users's accounts at his university.

Those computers are not the ones where critical data -- for launching
nuclear washeads, for exemple -- is stored but they can provide some
information on the kind of research the army is into.


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