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A Bit More on Security
By Ron Yost

Hi all!

I've discovered a great document detailing how to improve your security on the Internet. It's titled: "Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it", and was written by Wietse Venema, Eindhoven University of Technology.

URL: http://www.spork.com/crack.html

It's worth printing-out (18 pages), and I admit I don't understand 90-percent of it! but if you're concerned about security and especially if you have your own domain; are a Sys. Administrator or an Internet Service Provider, etc., it's really worth reading and you'd understand MUCH more than I! There are tips for those with simple accounts, and the section on how EASY it is to accumulate and crack ANY password is a bit frightening! Take Jody's advice and change your passwords/codes frequently and don't use any meaningful combination of letters/numbers. That was MY mistake!

If you don't have www access and would like to read it, just email me and I'll send it to you as an attachment titled - security.txt. It prints from Windows Notepad just fine.

Now maybe we can get back to the Musik!!!

Ron Yost


(Message sent Sun 30 Jun 1996, 20:29:30 GMT, from time zone GMT-0700.)

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