Very Computer

Security Testing
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Have your computer system's password file rigorously
tested for 'weak' passwords.

A full test will be performed on your systems password
file in the same manner that many hackers will attempt
to crack 'weak' passwords.

Send your password file to passwd"gmcanany.demon.co.uk
and after 7 days, a complete listing of all 'weak' passwords
will be returned.

Current systems supported : ( UNIX Only)

UNIX
----
  To find your password file, look in etc\passwd
  or if a 'yellow pages' system is in operation on
  your system, type ypcat passwd > passfile.txt
  and then email the passfile.txt.

Be sure to enclose the email address you want your results
returning to.

Christmas: There may be an additional delay of
approximately 7 days over the christmas period.

Security Testing
----------------

Have your computer system's password file rigorously
tested for 'weak' passwords.

A full test will be performed on your systems password
file in the same manner that many hackers will attempt
to crack 'weak' passwords.

Send your password file to passwd"gmcanany.demon.co.uk
and after 7 days, a complete listing of all 'weak' passwords
will be returned.

Current systems supported : ( UNIX Only)

UNIX
----
  To find your password file, look in etc\passwd
  or if a 'yellow pages' system is in operation on
  your system, type ypcat passwd > passfile.txt
  and then email the passfile.txt.

Be sure to enclose the email address you want your results
returning to.

Christmas: There may be an additional delay of
approximately 7 days over the christmas period.

CU
Alex de Jong
The Netherlands

Jon Mitchell                                    CCSO Sites Tech Crew

*speaks only for himself*

: Security Testing
: ----------------
:
: Have your computer system's password file rigorously
: tested for 'weak' passwords.
:
: A full test will be performed on your systems password
: file in the same manner that many hackers will attempt
: to crack 'weak' passwords.
:
: Send your password file to passwd"gmcanany.demon.co.uk
: and after 7 days, a complete listing of all 'weak' passwords
: will be returned.
[snip]

ROTFL!!
Somebody please tell me this is a joke!
It has to be ... or perhaps ... could there really be a person stupid
enought to actually *send* the file??

Thanks graham, this could be from any one of the better Monty Python
skids. I love your sense of humor.

GRTX,

        -Chris

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Quote:> ROTFL!!
> Somebody please tell me this is a joke!
> It has to be ... or perhaps ... could there really be a person stupid
> enought to actually *send* the file??

> Thanks graham, this could be from any one of the better Monty Python
> skids. I love your sense of humor.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
<thud> <roll roll roll> <giggle> <snarfle> <thud thud thud>
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
<bang bang bang>

...and the beauty is, the timing is just so ironic.

ps: don't *anybody* do this, 'cos if you do you deserve to be called a
spod.  I'm forwarding this to Demon as-is.

        - alec (no, don't ask why. just wait a week or so...)

Quote:> Have your computer system's password file rigorously
> tested for 'weak' passwords.

> A full test will be performed on your systems password
> file in the same manner that many hackers will attempt
> to crack 'weak' passwords.

Quote:> Send your password file to passwd"gmcanany.demon.co.uk
> and after 7 days, a complete listing of all 'weak' passwords
> will be returned.

Quote:> Be sure to enclose the email address you want your results
> returning to.

All this for free, too, how generous!

This must be a troll.

-Paul-

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: Security Testing
: ----------------

: Current systems supported : ( UNIX Only)

UNIX only, but uses Forte free agent to post :)

: UNIX
: ----
:   To find your password file, look in etc\passwd
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                                           real unix expert

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       URL: http://student.math.hr/~hvulin/

Quote:>...and the beauty is, the timing is just so ironic.
>ps: don't *anybody* do this, 'cos if you do you deserve to be called a
>spod.  I'm forwarding this to Demon as-is.
>    - alec (no, don't ask why. just wait a week or so...)

Quote:

> UNIX
> ----
>   To find your password file, look in etc\passwd
>   or if a 'yellow pages' system is in operation on
>   your system, type ypcat passwd > passfile.txt
>   and then email the passfile.txt.

> Be sure to enclose the email address you want your results
> returning to.

> Christmas: There may be an additional delay of
> approximately 7 days over the christmas period.

As we say on this side of the pond: arsehole!

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Pyers Symon

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Send me your money, any currency as long as its large value notes, and
I will verify it's not forged, and then send it back to you within
ten years. Note I refute responsibility for items lost in transit,
and proof of posting is not taken as proof of reception.

Meanwhile, I think the password checking service is brilliant and will
have all of mine tested ASAP!!!!

Yeah, right. And I suppose they changed the spelling of "gullible" in
the 1997 dictionary again (look it up and compare, you'll see).

Paul
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Hyperchondria is a terrible thing, I was off sick with it for weeks once
:-)

This is quite unbelievable.  I am surprised the note didn't have
warnings about viruses (Good Times, IRINA, DEEYENDA, and GHOST.EXE) or
other, more real security problems, to make it look more like an
actual service.  That's why this type of attack is so insidious.  It
came through all of our firewalls, and unless we read the specific
message we didn't know!
                                 -rob

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I just hope his parents can pay for the damages, since it will be a
while until he is out of prison...

...or so the story goes...

Excuse me, I gotta get some tissues, I still have tears in my eyes...

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I have some prime beachfront property just east of the San Adreas Fault for sale .

Scary part of this might be some cheap ^%#$ bean counter in a corp paying slave/starvation
wages to a green sys admin wannabe might actually do this. As they say, One born
every minute.

Sorry to beat a horse that should be dead. Nice touch about the laywer btw.