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Pasquarello said the burglar or burglars took men's and women's watches, sterling silver bracelets and assorted pieces of gold jewelry, among other gems...
Chris Dewing '95, a proctor in Matthews, said that the burglar entered the room of one of his proctees who lives on the first floor. "He then picked his way through the dorm," said Dewey...
...fear was that the program, which Farmer intended to make widely available free of charge, would have the opposite effect. Computer experts were worried that it would get into the hands of computer intruders, who would use it as a burglar's tool kit to break the Internet wide open. The program is so point-and-click simple that it can turn second-rate hackers into efficient computer crackers...
...turning out to be terminally insecure. One of the things Mitnick is believed to have stolen from Shimomura's computer is a set of utility programs-the electronic equivalent of a locksmith's toolbox-that would make, in the hands of a determined hacker, a potent set of burglar's tools. Given the speed with which such programs can be duplicated and transmitted, it must now be assumed that they have been distributed widely throughout the computer underground...
Even before Kevin Mitnick got his hands on these burglar's tools, says William Cheswick, a network-security specialist at AT&T Bell Labs, the average computer on the Internet was singularly vulnerable to attack. Security at most sites, says Cheswick, is so lax that passwords and other protective devices are almost a waste of time. "The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back," says Cheswick. "I don't need jackhammers and atom bombs to get in when I can walk in through the door...