RE: AS/400 on alt.hacker

["Ed Davidson" <Edavidson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You forget, these are computers.  We can tell them to do something and leave
them for days/months/years at a time to accomplish the task.

You can have packet capture software capture what you specify.  Do I want a
password for JoeBlow?  Tell the software to only capture packets with
JoeBlow in them, and then capture all packets from/to JowBlows computer.
Save the data to disk.  When I come back to my computer, do a find over the
packets for the word JoeBlow.  You can kinda tell if the packet is a signon
packet.   If it is, the password is in the same packet just under the signon
code.

Specify just to capture packets going to a specific IP address, at port 20,
21, 25, and 110.  Passwords are sent in the clear on these ports.

The question isn't if you will be hacked, the question is will the hacker
get in?   My site gets about 44k hits a week, about 1000 unique visitors.
Very small by internet standards.  About every other day there is someone
trying to do something to my internet server that they shouldn't.

This information is available all over the internet.  Anyone looking for a
thrill can find it and cause damage to someone.


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