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Petition to reinstate John Petersen (JVP)
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01/02/2008 17:48:00
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
 
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01/02/2008 17:34:56
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Politics
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Miscellaneous
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01287817
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>>>>>>>>>>>I think if Nadya is still here, JVP should be too. You would think those transgressions would be considered much more serious than just pissing people off.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>I see no comparision. I never attacked anyone.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I believe he talked about accessing somebody else's account without permission.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Holy Ouch, Batman!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Well, if he did talk about that, I do not think it is relevant since none of this happened 'here'
>>>>>>>It happened ElseWhere. And someone from ElseWhere dropped the ball here
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>But, mon ami, it happened here!
>>>>>
>>>>>How can I have missed that ?
>>>>>The access log files came from ElseWhere. Parts of them were on a blog. Then someone, who hates the ut, posted a warning and a link to that blog
>>>>>
>>>>>I did not see any user account from the ut. Just a user account from ElseWhere
>>>>
>>>>You don't recall that they used their UT admin privs to access username and password information?
>>>_
>>>No, I don't. The abused/hacked account was - according to the blogs - from a certain AndyK with ditto and easy-to-guess password
>>
>>Now I can understand guessing the easy password, but the first time? It was a fact it was guessed correctly the first time. Seems like a huge coincidence to me.
>_______
>Dunno, Mike, maybe it was AndrKr - the non-profit moderator signature - http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1617290&SiteID=1
>[ he promised to stay away, but he's back been lately ]
>
>But whether it was AndyK or AndryKr, it is easy to guess. Might take you a dozen tries though

Exactly. I have no doubt that if somebody sat down to try to guess the password, they could do it. I just find it odd that it was the first guess.
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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