Re: Caltech FTP site...

[sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

In article <jmk3.762773522@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> jmk3@crux4.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:
>In article <2l6m8g$7ki@gap.cco.caltech.edu> nathan@beat.ugcs.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:
>>   Caltech is rather firewalled at the moment; a bunch of hackers
>>got in and did some damage... Hopefully sometime next week or
>
> Someone got into Cornell recently too (the Sun's not cruxen).
>And there was an article in the NY Times recently about a
>recent rash of internet "break-ins."

Given how widely the Internet has been opened up to the "general
public" in the past year or so, do you suppose that this would be much
of a surprise? :-| It's probably a bunch of punk
junior-high/high-schoolers who are responsible...the ones who are
still trading "warez" for their C=64s and such (if they still
exist--and if we're still around, they probably are still around as
well).

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