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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Tue, 21 May 1996 10:39:08 -0500 (CDT), "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net> said:

> You'll have to pardon me if I don't see it, as part of the discussion we
> played with my spoofing utility and I found 2.2 -current just as easy to
> spoof as 2.0.5.

Presumably your burglars' tools already have knowledge of the 4.4 RNG.

-GAWollman

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