Reply From: *Hobbit* <hobbitat_private> Comments on a coupla recent items... So officials at Price Waterhouse did what many other commercial enterprises have done, and continue to do. They targeted a group of employees at the Defense Department's secretive National Security Agency, Funny how they don't mention how PW, along with several other Big Six firms, have also had to hire grey-hat hacker types because they're the ones with the real clues. We even know some of them, don't we? Before that, it was pretty clear that their "security audits" were a joke. I very much doubt whether encryption has EVER been involved in an attack on government computer systems. Hmmph. What will the press say when someone gets in by bruting password guesses through SSH?? "sophisticated cryptographic attack", my ass. _H* -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: New Dimensions International [www.newdimensions.net]
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