Re: Anyone here from Microsoft? Hacked?

["J.D. Falk" <jdfalk () cybernothing org>]

On 01/25/02, David Charlap <David.Charlap () marconi com> wrote: 

> Paul Timmins wrote:
> > umm, notice that domain name? See that @ sign? Anything before it
> > is sent as a username, which is generally ignored unless requested.
> > We now return you to your regularly scheduled network operations
> > discussion and flamewars.
>
> Reminds me of an old joke when I was in college.  I used to have this in
> my .signature:
>
>       Free UNIX accounts.  Telnet to 127.0.0.1.  Use your existing
>       user ID and password to login.
>
> I got a lot of mail from concerned-but-clueless people warning me that
> this may be a criminal trying to harvest passwords.
>
> Of course, the joke is far less effective today, when most people on the
> internet are not using UNIX systems.

        There was a pretty impressive warez network running on that
        IP address for a while, too.

        The slogan was "everything we have is yours."

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J.D. Falk                     "Whom can you ask 
<jdfalk () cybernothing org>       what you came to make happen in this world?"  
                                     -- Rob Brezny, adapted from Pablo Naruda