From mdy@sekurity.org Fri Apr 24 14:54:28 1998 From: ModifyTo: jericho@dimensional.com Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 14:03:43 -0600 (MDT) Subject: She has got to go. (fwd) They love your shame site! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 15:49:01 -0400 From: "Gnichtel, Edwin" To: "'mdy@sekurity.org'" Subject: She has got to go. Fist of all, I liked you post and I like your guys site. Secondly, how did this cornball, Carolyn Meinel, manage to climb so far up the latter that she is making headlines on ZDNet? Also, what method did they use to get root access to Rt.66's server. About a month ago, when they started that stupid contest, the first thing I did was I went downstream and I telnet'ed in (a bad sign) to their (ISP) server, noted that it was strange that the had left open such a obvious hole, tried a couple of common root and superuser passwords, but got bored and decided that I just wasn't cut out to be a happy hacker. Truthfully, I am more interested in actually learning about protecting my own stuff than breaking someone else's. It was while I was doing my daily reading on the various security/hack/crack/phreaking sites when I stumbled on to her site. The name said it all, however the audacity of the crap on her site was so unbelievable that I had to poke just a little bit (comon, she has stuff about changing 95 boot up screens for godsakes). If your an ISP hosting a crack and burn contest, then why the hell would you leave good old telnet WIDE OPEN on any of your systems (or routers, or whatever)? Anyway, the site is great, and I loved the BASH log. Later on MaKFu AKA Ned Gnichtel _________________________ Corporate Support Specialist MCSE MedAmerica North East www.nj.medamerica.com gnichtele@nj.medamerica.com "my karma ran over my dogma"