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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: spell is a Trojan horse?
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:36:12 GMT

ignatz@wam.umd.edu (Mark J. Sienkiewicz) writes:
>btw.. beware of things that are supposed to be world writeable: e.g.
>on many machines, /usr/dict/spellhist is world writeable.  (It collects
>lists of words that people spell wrong.  It has no special security
>because you don't really _care_ if it gets trashed.  All it is good for
>is identifying words that _might_ belong in the dictionary.  This in itself
>could be a security hole, if you have people spell-checking documents
>that contain sensitive information.)

Good Lord, spell is a Trojan horse!  I thought I was just spell-checking my
documents, but really I'm filing them away for a sysadmin to peruse?  What
systems is this true on?  And is it world readable too?

(just put down an Article-ID as a spelling error and then you'll know which
message I replied to!  I mean, I know that the root people could grab a lot of
my mail if they tried, but I'm not pleased with my private documents being
thrust in their faces.)
Newsgroups: alt.security
From: Paul Lynch <lynch@cvmmdl2.msstate.edu>
Subject: Crackers & cops
Organization: MSU College of Vet Med
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1b1
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 19:25:43 GMT

Where can I get a shareware copy of crackers and/or cops? Do they come
with docs?
Lynch@cvmmdl2.msstate.edu
Newsgroups: alt.security
From: imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: passwd security check
Organization: Solbourne, User Interface Group
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:18:56 GMT

In article <1345@eouk9.eoe.co.uk> ahaley@eoe.co.uk (Andrew Haley) writes:
>There are weak keys (e.g. 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01) which do no real
>scrambling at all, and some semi weak keys which do very little.  In
>fact, these keys are very useful for testing DES implementations.
>You'd have to be pretty determined to get these into an ASCII
>terminal, though.

Are you sure about this?  Assuming that your key one of the ones that
has little protection, then it looks typable to me.  If DES uses only
7-bits of each byte, then the sequence that you describe would be
",U,U,U,U" which is pretty easy to type.  If DES used all 8-bits in
each byte for the key, then the password would be "UUUUUUUU"  Either
way, the password is easily typable.

Warner


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From: adam@gomez.intel.com (Adam Margulies ~)
Newsgroups: alt.security
Subject: Re: passwd security check
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:04:12 GMT
Organization: Software Technology, Intel Corp, Santa Clara, CA

In article <14mgkaINN1uq@moe.ksu.ksu.edu> rjq@phys.ksu.edu (Rob Quinn) writes:
>In <1992Jul23.092715.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> leichter@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes:
>]One thing it's important to remember is that there are many passwords that
>]hash to the same value.  Even if you and I have the same salt and the same
>]hash value, it doesn't mean we chose the same password - though it DOES mean
>]that either of our passwords will work on either account.
>
> Can you provide an example? Or is there some mathematical proof? This question
>has come up a lot before, and there have been answers on both sides, but no
>proof either way that I have seen.

DES has a theorectical weakness in that for any key there are exactly 7 other keys that will
crypt to the same string. I.E. if your password is "batman!" there exist seven other keys which
are not "batman!" that will allow access to your account. Fortunately they are almost certainly
extremely strange strings like "@gW #s(u", and not likely to match a human generated password.

Another interesting thing about DES is that there are 8 keys that crypt to a string of
all spaces and there are even keys that when encrypted reproduce themselves in the
crypted output. Weird.
Newsgroups: alt.security
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: NFS vulnerability (was Re: CERT ADVISORY - ...)
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 10:51:14 GMT

haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:

>In article <1992Jul24.114806.836@fwi.uva.nl> casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
>>You should configure NFS such that only clients request from a priviliged
>>port are accepted. This is possible in SunOS and you should do
>>this if it doesn't break things. Crackers already have programs that
>>make client requests from non-root user mode with faked credentials.

>Crackers also have access to workstations on which they can become root
>and use any port they like.

If crackers can become root on workstations you export filesystems
to, you're in deep trouble. Of course, only the mount daemon checks
requests for validity, so if people can guess a filehandle ...
That's why we filter 2049/udp in our routers. All NFS trouble
will be coming from the inside.

The bug just fixed has the effect that all you filesytems
are exported with root access, making a security breach
on a client more serious.

>>Secure NFS is the only solution in environments were clients can't be
>>trusted.

>Yeah, or Kerberos-protected NFS as used in MIT Athena.

Isn't Kerberos protected NFS also shipped with Solaris 2.0?
Secure NFS is the only thing easily available currently.

Casper
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Newsgroups: alt.security,rec.arts.movies
From: maureenw@sco.COM (Maureen Wilkes)
Subject: Re: Cuckoo's Egg (Was: Re: Sneakers (Upcoming movie about "hackers"))
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:16:47 GMT
Keywords: Cliff, Cuckoo's Egg, movie

In article <1992Jul24.230540.14412@tandon.com> manes@tandon.com (Dane Manes) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.145830.364@bony1.bony.com> billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp) writes:
>>
>>While Christopher Lloyd is best known for his "psycho" roles (Rev Jim on
>>Taxi, Doc Brown in Back to the Future, the Judge in Who Framed Roger
>>Rabbit, etc. ) I have seen him do a serious role or two and he is very
>>good.
>
>Yikes!  You haven't seen _Track 29_ yet, obviously!  Just the thought of 
>trains makes me shudder!
>

Really?  I thought TRACK 29 was more funny (in a twisted sort of way) than
scary.  Mind you, Gary Oldman's fantastic portrayal of the bastard-from-
hell had me checking the back seat of my car the next day.  But Christopher
Lloyd had me on the floor in stitches with his speech to the train club.
And Theresa Russell's braces added a nice hissing quality to her voice.
Tell me, were those braces intentional, or did the actress have them when
she was cast?
From: ericw@hobbes.amd.com (Eric Wedaa)
Newsgroups: alt.security
Subject: Crack-Cops Vs. Raxco review wanted
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:13:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

Sometime ago a comparison chart of Crack-Cops compared to the new
Raxco security toolkit was posted here.  Silly me, I don't keep a
news spool for 6 months, and had no idea I might need to see this 
review again.  Could someone please email a copy to me?

>>>Ericw
(This is because I just had this product put on my desk for me 
to review.)
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Newsgroups: alt.security
From: a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd)
Subject: Re: Cuckoo's Egg (Was: Re: Sneakers (Upcoming movie about "hackers"))
Keywords: Cuckoo's Egg, security, PBS
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 06:13:01 GMT

In article <35876@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> mark@kraken.ucsd.edu (Mark Anderson) writes:
>In article <14fdptINNga9@agate.berkeley.edu> stoll@ocf.berkeley.edu (Cliff Stoll) writes:
>>
>>Zooks!  I'm trying to get back to astronomy.  My 15 minutes of fame are over.
>>Cheers,
>>Cliff
>
>Gads! Well, fame or no, I hope the royalty checks are 
>still rolling in.
>
>Besides, word around town, is that Christopher Lloyd
>has a lock on playing you.

Oh yea? news to me! :-)

-- 
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:27:57 EDT
From: <JMH131@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Anyone but Stephen King
Distribution: na
 <1992Jul24.025048.29107@news.nd.edu> <1992Jul24.082502.1777@bvc.edu>

 Andrea wanted a good Koontz novel to read, so I suggest _Midnight_ for anyone
 who wants a good Koontz novel to read.  It doesn't fit the formula that
 Andrea described anyway.  I haven't read it in quite a long time (I read it
 when ET first came out at the movies), and I'm only 19 now, so I don't
 remember too much about it.  --John.
Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: brackney@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Larry J Brackney)
Subject: Barker Short Stories (was Best horror story)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:08:59 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.083024.1774@bvc.edu> frantz@bvc.edu writes:
>In article <92Jul23.023212.22192@acs.ucalgary.ca>, kmjoffe@acs.ucalgary.ca (Kenneth M. Joffe) writes:
>> I just recently read a couple of his books.  I thought Weaveworld
>> was quite good, but I didn't think Cabal was too great.  I was
>> really looking forward to reading it after Weaveworld, and it was
>> kind of a let down.  The funny thing about that book, which
>> suprised me was that it was partly set in Calgary.  I haven't
>> given up on him yet, and plan to get a few more of his books.  Is
>> Body Politic a novel or short storie?? Wasn't there a movie
>> based on it??  Any other good stuff I should look out for by
>> him??  
>> 
>The Body Politic is a short story and, like most of Barker's stuff, damned 
>fine.  He has several exceptional books of short stories out.  I'd strongly 
>recommend his Books of Blood--don't know how many volumes there are but 
>they're wonderful.  I read Weaveworld and enjoyed it a lot, too.  The guy's 
>creativity is nothing short of amazing.

   The Body Politic and Inhuman Condition collections as well as the
short stories at the end of Cabal are also part of the Books of Blood.
Body Politic is one of my personal favorites, but it is edged out by
How Spoilers Bleed from the Cabal collection.  (Highly recommended as
after dinner reading! ;-) )

   Also of interest to Barker fans - Titan books has just released
The Hellraiser Companion.  Lots o' glossy photos, and coverage of
ALL THREE films.  The book is slickly produced, and in the same
format as Titan's Nightbreed Chronicles.  (Which I also suggest for
fans.)

   - larry


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From: glitto@iastate.edu (Scott M Klabacha)
Subject: Re: RELEASES
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:42:08 GMT

laurelp+@pitt.edu (Laurel A Povazan) writes:
>Hey! For anyone out there who is interested, here's a list of releases for the
>near future according to this week's "Video Store":
>(BTW...all are United States releases. Sorry I couldn't get more info.)
>
>Dark Half - Fall 1992 (I hope for the best...could be straight to videotape)

Saw a commercial last night for a movie called "Raising Cain" which looks
*suspiciously* like The Dark Half. Did they change the title, or is this
just a case of another Hollywood *coincidence*?

***gLITTOfERN*** glitto@iastate.edu
From: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Lovecraft
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:16:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Miskatonic U. Computer Operations & User Services

azathoth@lighthouse.caltech.edu (Keith Counsell) writes:

>I've found that if you can't get the Arkham House collections, there is a Del 
>Rey series that does a decent job of presenting Lovecraft's stuff.  

The Del Rey collections are "Lovecraft edited"; the Arkham House collections
are "Lovecraft as he wrote it".  This is no slap at Del Rey's practices: the
edited version were all that was available until S. T. Joshi went back to the
original manuscripts, and Arkham isn't about to let the "authentic" Lovecraft
out of their hands any time soon.


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Internet: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu       BITnet: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC
From: kmrobert@nyx.cs.du.edu (K.M.Roberts)
Subject: Re: Kings new alias?
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 03:19:24 GMT

	By my original post on this topic, I did not mean to indicate that 
McCammon *was* King, or even *might* be King. I merely wanted to point out
how the idea had popped into my head...

	When I said I would guess McCammon if anyone told me that King
Positively had another alias, that was true. I have not seen nor read much
about McCammon (I do realize he's been around quite awhile...) and I thought/
think his style is very much like Kings... out of the writers I AM familiar
with, I would say he was the closest to King. Thus, he would be the one I 
would choose. Of course, that is assuming that King's pseudonym was popular!

	And I would *not* be so hasty to say that King doesn't/won't have
another alias.... after all, who's to know for sure, but King?

	Well, enough of that nonsense...

	Which of McCammons book would you suggest anyways? Like I stated, I
have only read Blue World and I think I might delve a bit further into this
guy....



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Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: brea9430@mach4.wlu.ca (breadner kenneth cecil joseph u)
Subject: Re: Gerald's Game (was re: psychological)
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 22:32:45 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.184456.9694@cs.tulane.edu> jordan@cs.tulane.edu (Misti Jordan) writes:
>In article <22490@oasys.dt.navy.mil> obusek@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Brenda Obusek) writes:
>>On the subject of Gerald's Game's appeal to women ...
>>
>>My personal opinion is that every woman in any King novel has been severely
>>underdeveloped and stereotypical. I can't recall any woman from any
>>of his books having any kind of career or interest of her own, only
>>things that centered around "her man." I'm no flaming feminist or anything,
>>but if you really think about this point, I think you'll find it's true.
>
>I disagree... to a certain extent... As the first example that comes
>to my mind:  Suzanna in DT3 (Wastelands) and any of the women in
>The Stand.

King himself has said (ref. Bare Bones) that he has trouble creating
believable female characters. They're either bitch-godesses from hell (I
believe those were his words) or weak, wimpy cardboard cutouts. 
But in DARK TOWER, King has accomplished it with Susannah Dean--by merging
the weak and the strong. 

I just saw "The Shining" again, and would like to say that this movie isn't
near as bad as I at first thought. There are some EXTREMELY creepy moments.
I won't get into the Jacks debate again, but I will say that Shelley Duvall
(sp?) was also mis-cast. In my view, anyway. She's just too weak-willed, and
not at all what I envisioned Wendy Torrance to be. But then again, I think
ALL movies do that to me.

Ken (who's every bit as avid a horror fan as Laurel!)
From: rhr9081@hertz.njit.edu (Ray Rich)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Lovecraft story "The Hound"  (spoilers)
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:51:02 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <36466@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> cthulhu@sparky.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Kupper) writes:
>In article <1992Jul16.120456.21908@news.ysu.edu> ae740@yfn.ysu.edu (Matthew Coda) writes:
>>In a previous article, rhr9081@hertz.njit.edu (Ray Rich) says:
>>
>>>	I've never read "The Hound", but I have read "The Thing on the Doorstep
>>>and found it to be excellent.  I'm reading "The Shadow out of Time" right now,
>>>and despite your reaction and claims on the book jacket that it's Lovecraft's
>>>crowning achievement, I kinda don't like it.  It seems to get bogged down in
>
>  I don't like that one much either. The most memorable ones for me were:
>
>	The Outsider
>	The Shadow Over Innsmouth
>	At the Mountains of Madness
>	(The story about the Aliens found floating around, etc.. - can't 
>		remember the name)
	The Whisperer in Darkness

>	(The one similar to ATMoM but it takes place in the desert)

	My favorites include:
	Shadow Over Innsmouth
	Pickman's Model
	Call of Cthulhu
	The Thing on the Doorstep
	The Dunwich Horror

	BTW, has anyone else read the Cthulhu comic books being published by
Millenium.  They're pretty good, tho they concentrate on the Call of Cthulhu
RPG theme of good guys vs. cultists and minor mythos races.  I think it's
handled pretty well with some decent adaptation, but the series' strongest
point is that it's trying to tie many of the mythos stories together (for
example, Inspector Lagrasse from CoC is involved in a follow-up investigation
of the Whisperer in Darkness.)

						Ia Shub-Niggurath!
							Raythrax
From: frantz@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Anyone but Stephen King
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:25:02 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

In article <1992Jul24.025048.29107@news.nd.edu>, wlamonac@purcell.helios.nd.edu (william lamonaca) writes:
> Well, I think Stephen King is pretty much overrated-  he seems to truly have
> run out of anything interesting to say years ago.  Right now, I think he's
> responsible for killing more trees than MacDonald's.  Frankly, I wish his
> editor(s) would have the guts to stand up to him and say "Steve- we really
> don't need another 1500 page novel this year- could you trim it a bit to a
> reasonable length?"
> 
> Anyway, some authors that I would like to see discussed are: Skipp and Spector
> (I noticed some discussion starting), David Schow, Richard Christian
> Matheson, Joe R. Lansdale, Dean Koontz and Ramsay Campbell.  Can we leave
> King alone for awhile and talk about other authors?


Well...if you don't want to talk about King, don't get into the King 
discussions.  Also, I'd challenge you to read Gerald's Game, (which is not 
1,500 pages) and decide then if King has actually run out of anything 
interesting to say.  But you didn't want to talk about King, did you?

I haven't picked up a Koontz novel in awhile just because I got a little 
tired of the formula I felt like he relied on too much.  Inevitably there's 
a lonely man and a young, lovely woman whose paths cross because of bizarre 
circumstances.  They battle the "bizarre circumstances" and, incredibly, 
come out of it alive, unscathed, and live happily ever after.  I think the 
last one I read was the one about the subliminal messaging/mind control 
thing.  If there's anyone out there who can recommend one of Koontz's books 
that doesn't have this pattern, I'd sure welcome it.  I think his premises 
are generally quite interesting, but I wish he'd get away from the 
cardboard cutout characters.

Andrea @ BVC
From: brian@zooid.guild.org (Brian Misiaszek)
Newsgroups: alt.horror
Subject: Re: Ray Bradbury
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:42:27 GMT

From: z_mccullocca@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
>I have also been reading some short stories by
>The Pedestrian
>October 2026: THe Million-Year Picnic
>I KNOW IT IS NOT HORROR BUT THOUGHT-PROVOKING

  Robert McCammon's "Boy's Life" is very reminiscent of Bradbury's "Dandilion
Wine"--the latter an excellent book on the eerie happenings that are perfectly
normal to a young boy.  McCammon's book is almost his reply to Bradbury's
earlier work.
 
::Brian::

Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Webster)
Subject: Re: Gerald's Game (was re: psychological)
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:28:14 GMT

On the very interesting question of Stephen King's female characters,
I certainly would agree that Bobbie Anderson (_Tommyknockers_) is the
most obvious counterexample--since she's fully established as a single
woman and an author of Westerns.  The revised version of _The_Stand_
also offers a richer view of Frannie Goldsmith: the added scene between
Frannie and her mother is one of my favorites in *all* of Stephen King,
and it's a perfect complement to the lyrical sequence describing
Frannie's burial of her father.  And what about the lesbian warrior-
woman character in _The_Stand_--Dayna something?  She may not have a 
very big part, but she makes the most of it, as the film folks say. :-)

We also haven't mentioned Annie Wilkes as another character who is
far more complicated than just a "bitch-goddess from Hell."  (Stephen
King always portrays his writing as much cruder than it really is,
so you have to take things like his comments in _Bare_Bones_ with a
grain of salt.)  Annie has a history, a personality, and a career.
Her psychological *presence* in _Misery_ is so much more powerful
than Paul Sheldon's, it's amazing...

Last but not least: King's Carrie/Charlie character.  The Girl with a
Gift, as portrayed in both _Firestarter_ (young) and _Carrie_ (adolescent)
is obviously one of King's favorites.  King's portrayal of the
psychology of growing up female in our society--especially vis-a-vis
the mother-daughter schism--is right on, in my opinion.

Remember that *female* secretaries and office personnel of the
publishing company that rejected King's first novel, _Carrie_, were
responsible--by copying and handing around the manuscript among them--
for the beginning of King's career.  It's an often-told story--how
the women in the company reacted with enthusiasm to the napkin-throwing
scene, and succeed in getting _Carrie_ reconsidered for publication.

I have also heard that demographically, the "typical" King reader is
(like Annie Wilkes (-:) an educated woman in her thirties.

						--an educated woman in
						   her thirties,

							Fiona W.
Newsgroups: alt.horror
From: tgt33358@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Deus Imperator)
Subject: Re: Info on ArkhamHsE
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:34:56 GMT

In article <15449@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez000939@bullwinkle.ucdavis.edu (Squid) writes:
>While on the subject, I heared that HP Lovecraft might have had a problem
>with manic depression, and since lithium wasn't probably in use yet...
>I also heared that he got inspiration from his dreams.  Does anyone have
>any info on this?  I have heared that Hansrudi R. Giger had the same problems
>(i.e. depression/dreams).
>
Obviously, you've heard the theories about manic depressivism and artistic
talent.  But a strange twist on H.P. Lovecraft was that he HATED seafood,
and for a guy living in New England, that's pretty extreme.  So that's 
why ol' Blue Eyes Cthulhu dwells in the deep, and the horrible hybrids are
half man/half fish.

I guess this runs parallel to Poe's fear of being buried alive, which runs 
through many of his works.  Anyone else know of a compulsive fear that has
terrorized other great horror authors?

-- 
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