Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Changing your password is one of the most important things you can do to maintain the security of your own FAS e-mail account," Osterberg says. "Each insecure individual account is a weak link in the chain, which may allow a malicious outside user to gain access to our system. By doing what we can to maintain the security of the individual accounts, we increase the overall security of the system as a whole...
...there for the taking of private information, as in the cases of the Dunster and Eliot House system break-ins. Some follow a profoundly anti-bureaucratic ethic that was defined by Steven Levy in his 1984 book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. His tenets are as follows: Access to computers should be unlimited and total, all information should be free, authority should be mistrusted and decentralization should be promoted...
...logging in as root, a person gains universal access to do whatever they want to the files on that server. For hackers, this generally entails first changing passwords, so that only they can gain access to the server, and then altering the site, while taking care to delete all the logs that might be used later on to identify them...
There are two commonly used methods of gaining root access to a server. The first is through anonymous FTP access into the Web page's server...
...hacker runs on a server to expose errors or bugs in a system. While this is a much more complicated way of hacking a Web site than through FTP, it is also much more powerful because it allows a person to hack servers that don't allow anonymous FTP access...