Re: POSSIBLY O/T: ETHICAL HACKING/CRACKING (WAS RE: GLUG: Re: your mail)

["Neil Fryer" <nielf@xxxxxxxx>]

Now, that sounds like a great idea, fun too.

Neil Fryer
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Carter" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Thinus Pollard" <thinusp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "GLUG" <glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 8:22 AM
Subject: RE: POSSIBLY O/T: ETHICAL HACKING/CRACKING (WAS RE: GLUG: Re: your
mail)


> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Thinus Pollard wrote:
>
> > will only be fun if someone else sets up the machine... otherwise you'll
be
> > in the know of root passwd, package versions etc etc etc... ;)
>
> So set up "Please crack me" box and tell us about it on Glug. It would
> be an innocent form of amusement and good education for all.
>
> There are a couple of things like that on the net. (The latest one I read
> about on lwn.net got cracked by something as utterly silly as a vendor
> default password...)
>
> It would be good to have a couple of "Please crack me boxes" in the Glug
> community.
>
> Another one that would be fun would be a "out of the box" DeadBat distro.
>
> No hardening apart from setting the root passwd.
>
>
> John Carter
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