The computer was hacked... Now I am not a system guru but I what I see is that unless there is another way that I am clueless about, when you access a computer through telnet you are asked a login and a password. According to some theory that I read somewhere if your password is long enough and unrelated to your public activities (not mickeymouse for the disney site root login) there is only one chance in some trillion that one can find the password and it would take them 10 times that amount of minutes to type in all the passwords even with a good computer. My questions are: Is being hacked a concern? Does it happen? Is it the result of poor site security or are there really people out there that can make my computer believe that they are me when they are not? In other words, do hackers really exist or are they just an internet rumor? ***** If so can you change my grades on the University computer? ***** Mehdi aka Heritsun (no longer at Eclipse of Fate, you can go hack there, I don't care) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | | Or send 'info circle' to majordomo@cspo.queensu.ca | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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