full-disclosure - Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate

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From: gcomeaux at new-orleans.sns.slb.com (Gerald Comeaux)
Subject: Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate

Is it just me, or is anyone else concerned that this is going to be used
to help push 'trusted computing'?

-g



On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:54, Schmehl, Paul L wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com 
> > [mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Blue Boar
> > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 12:58 PM
> > To: Richard M. Smith
> > Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
> > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Major hack attack on the U.S. Senate
> > 
> > Richard M. Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary 
> > > Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, 
> > monitoring 
> > > secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to 
> > the media, 
> > > Senate officials told The Globe.
> > 
> > Yay! Congressionally-mandated reduced computer intrusion 
> > sentancing guidelines for everyone!
> > 
> Nah!  Just another law that Congress will exempt themselves from.
> 
> Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
> Adjunct Information Security Officer
> The University of Texas at Dallas
> AVIEN Founding Member
> http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
> 
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