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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 13:59:36 -0400
To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <thelab@nmarcom.com>
Subject: Re: Argh
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At 11:08 -0400 1997/09/25, Sean Kelly wrote:

>Good for you!
>
>I've got a similar story to report.  Several years ago at the university
>computing center where I was an admin, our PC lab was compromised and several
>complete systems were taken.  The consensus was that they were long gone and
>never to be seen again.
>
>I moved onto greener pastures afterwards (a not from the sale of stolen PCs,
>thank you).  But I kept in touch with the computing center and learned of
>their
>plans to offer Ethernet service in the dorm rooms.  Lo and behold, station
>addresses from the Ethernet cards of the missing PCs started appearing on the
>new subnet!  Campus police were alerted and the wrongdoers were brought to
>justice.
>
>Sometimes, it's nice that a certain select few are dumb (or at least
>uneducated).
>
>--k

Oh, wow... i realize now that i have no real documentation listing thre
hardware  addresses of our ethernet cars/routers/etc, and it would be a
very handy thing to have indeed for just that reason... thanks for the
(idirect) tip. :)

-Mit