Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:22:07 -0600 (CST) From: "jtkipp@students.wisc.edu" <jesse@foo.bar.com> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yahoo Compromise (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971210082113.283B-100000@foo.bar.com>
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Oops, I accidentally sent this to questions... sorry... DOH!
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"I'm a fighter-MAGE-thief, I can do anything: I'll just never get any
better at it." Jesse Friend refering to his Dungeons and Dragons Character
Jesse Kipp, zaphod@imailbox.com, jtkipp@students.wisc.edu
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:20:40 -0600 (CST)
From: "jtkipp@students.wisc.edu" <jesse@foo.bar.com>
Reply-To: zaphod@imailbox.com
To: question@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Yahoo Compromise
A group of hackers has claimed that they planted something "bad" on yahoo,
and unless another certain hacker is released from prison, they will let
this "bad" thing wreck computers across the internet.
I'm frankly confused at to how this could be done...
I don't know (or even claim to know) much about HTTP and HTML, but I just
don't see how some "dangerous" code can be remotely executed on a
stand-alone (or dial-up) computer that is set to read just HTML 3.0 (like
mine, no java, no sound, no cookies, no insecure transfers). I think it is
a hoax.
On my windoz e-mail address
I get wired-inbox-direct, and there was a link to it from there I think, I
wasn't able to find it visiting the site though. If people would like me
to find the article out of cache/trash e-mail me personally and I'll see
if it's still around...
<sigh> Sanity in Jepordy again,
Jesse Kipp
Zaphod@imailbox.com
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > So does anyone out there know how the folks managed to compromise Yahoo's
> > systems?
>
> Huh? What happened? URL?
>
> --Sean
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