[13011] in APO-L
Password Problems and the net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Vaccaro)
Wed Oct 18 10:36:50 1995
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:33:51 -0500
Reply-To: Pete Vaccaro <psv5298@TAM2000.TAMU.EDU>
From: Pete Vaccaro <psv5298@TAM2000.TAMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Hopefully this point has not been brought up. If it has, sorry. There are
other things to consider when dealing with passwords and the
net. Getting passwords is fairly easy. People use "tools" to search the
net and get information that does not belong to them i.e. credit card
numbers, passwords etc. The problem is if APO is going to have anything
on the web that will need a password to get into, we need to think about
security and who will be able/want to get into the web page. Some
hackers do it because they can, others are malicious. Again, this is
something that needs to be thought about if it has not already. And for
those of you wtih multiple passwords, make them all one thing and save
yourself some trouble.
In LFS,
Pete Vaccaro
Xi Delta
Texas A&M University
