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From: ejb@think.ARPA (Erik Bailey)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: Canceled messages
Message-ID: <3240@think.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 16:44:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 31 16:44:53 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 03:01:34 EST
References: <428@primesun.uucp>
Reply-To: ejb@think.UUCP (Erik Bailey)
Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA
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In article <428@primesun.uucp> bob@primesun.uucp writes:
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>We've just received about 14 messages in a row for net.sources which had
>a CANCEL subject line and whose text was simply "inapropriate newsgroup".
>
>What's going on?

NEW YORK TIMES:

Teenage hackers strike again!

In a harrowing incident on the worldwide network of UNIX machines, known
as USENET, there has been overwhelming evidence of (fanfare) TEENAGE
HACKERS! Thousands of messages of the type:



Innapropriate news group

We can only assume that these are a coverup for the REAL DAMAGE these
insolent brats have caused. Mr. Oliver Wendell, a world-wide leader in
the subject of breaking into systems, reports that:

"the teens may well have smashed through national security at the NORAD
base in Cheyenne Mt., and slowly worked their way via comandeered
satellite to a USENET gateway. Here, drinking cased of salvaged Old
Coke, they maliciously logged in as 'anonymous', and broke through all
standard UNIX defenses, to the point of becoming the so-called
'super-user'. From here it was a trivial matter simply to execute Pnews
and wreak havok with USENET. HOWEVER - the site had just implemented a
new version of Pnews, with advanced AI facilities. When it saw the work
IBM-PC in a msg directed to net.unix-wizards, it IMMEDIATELY fired off a
msg to net.news reporting that an incorrect newsgroup had been used."

"But Mr. Wendell - the messages appeared in net.sources!"

"@$@"^$*{@$^*) systems programmers!"

*** The end ***

[ PS - no more msgs on this, UNLESS you have a real answer. Sorry for
       cluttering up net.sources like this, but I couldn't resist...]

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Erik Bailey
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