There's a chap called McKinnon, a Brit, who continues to fight
extradition to the USA. He is charged with "hacking" into various
government networks in the US, including the Pentagon. Apparently he
had no trouble with this "hacking" as several passwords on security
systems were set to default.
It's not many years ago that the Department of Defense (sic) found
that connecting internal networks with the WAN laid it open to
intruders. So few people, in positions of authority, in government
understand networks that I should not be at all surprised if
elementary vulnerabilities were still around ...
Chris
On 26 Dec 2007, at 08:11, Jan Steinman wrote:
> The problem is not that a computer is willing to communicate to the
> outside world; the problem is that many computers are configured to be
> promiscuous with the outside world, and that certain services are
> fairly easy to crack. Others are damn near impossible, unless you're
> NSA.
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