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Re: black hat .cn networks


From: David Charlap <david.charlap () marconi com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 17:54:53 -0400


"Bryan C. Andregg" wrote:
John Fraizer wrote:

The story I read had it as two individuals.  The not-so-bright one
who had access to the bank and the bright one who designed and
built a device to put inline at the bank.  The device diverted the
equiv of pennies per transaction that passed through it to a bank
account that the two had set up somewhere.  It was a brilliant
scheme.  They screwed up by trying to withdrawl huge amounts of
money at a time.  THAT's what got them caught.

Isn't that the plot to Superman III?

Yes.  There are allegedly several instances of this happening.  It is
unknown which (if any) of these are actually true:

        http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/salami.htm

-- David


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