Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 13:59:36 -0400 From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <thelab@nmarcom.com> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@hub.freebsd.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Argh Message-ID: <v03102801b0505697f0dd@[207.181.124.43]> In-Reply-To: <342A7E72.B6F06734@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <199709250933.TAA01033@word.smith.net.au>
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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
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