Anyone here from Microsoft? Hacked?

Fri Jan 25 18:22:51 UTC 2002

On 01/25/02, David Charlap <David.Charlap at marconi.com> wrote: 

> Paul Timmins wrote:
> > 
> > umm, notice that domain name? See that @ sign? Anything before it
> > is sent as a username, which is generally ignored unless requested.
> > We now return you to your regularly scheduled network operations
> > discussion and flamewars.
> 
> Reminds me of an old joke when I was in college.  I used to have this in
> my .signature:
> 
> 	Free UNIX accounts.  Telnet to 127.0.0.1.  Use your existing
> 	user ID and password to login.
> 
> I got a lot of mail from concerned-but-clueless people warning me that
> this may be a criminal trying to harvest passwords.
> 
> Of course, the joke is far less effective today, when most people on the
> internet are not using UNIX systems.

	There was a pretty impressive warez network running on that
	IP address for a while, too.

	The slogan was "everything we have is yours."

-- 
J.D. Falk                     "Whom can you ask 
<jdfalk at cybernothing.org>       what you came to make happen in this world?"  
                                     -- Rob Brezny, adapted from Pablo Naruda