From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:32:18 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] History of exploits - request for authors In-Reply-To: <20171219201721.GA95741@accordion.employees.org> References: <8460DBBB-A4E2-468B-B294-A2B021213F3C@alchemistowl.org> <20171219201721.GA95741@accordion.employees.org> Message-ID: <012401d37908$771c77d0$65556770$@ronnatalie.com> Hence the CTL-ALT-DEL log in feature of NT (and later windows). I remember when the beta NTs came out and I loaded up countless floppies to see the Windows NT "Preliminary" logo come up and then a pop up telling me to type CTL-ALT-DEL to log in. -----Original Message----- From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Derek Fawcus Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 3:17 PM To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of exploits - request for authors On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:08:21PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > Leaving a "login" simulator on a terminal (quite common). Well if you include that one, you may want to include the simple brute force testing of passwords against /etc/passwd (before shadow files existed). The login name and real names (direct or reversed) would tend to get at least one hit. DF