full-disclosure - Re: Brute force attack

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Message-ID: <47B1D446.8090505@snosoft.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:15:50 -0500
From: Simon Smith <simon@...soft.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Brute force attack - need your advice

Anyone find any info on how or why Dude passed on?


Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:21:20 EST, Keith Kilroy said:
> 
>> The only box that is safe is the one unplugged hdd removed and
>> destroyed and rest of system locked in a closet.
> 
> Actually, no. :) Some clever guys at UIUC managed to get a quantum CPU
> that wasn't powered on to do some calculations *anyhow*:
> 
> http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18925405.700.html
> 
> Now, if the program run while it's turned off has an exploitable bug in it.....
> 
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