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To: Steven Grady <grady@xcf.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: question about e-bay breakin last week
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On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Steven Grady wrote:

> According to the story, the cracker who got into e-Bay last week got
> in via FreeBSD.  Does anyone know anything more about this?

Does anyone else think the story sounds a bit fishy?  The 'hacker'
mentions little more than well-known 'hacking cliches', and the
'proof' that is mentioned (a bogus page placed on one of Ebay's web
servers) could have just as easily been accomplished by spoofed DNS.

*shrug*

Later,

					-Mike




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