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Some computer programs exist which allow formore sophisticated attacks on students' privateaccounts. "Crack," for example, is a freelyavailable program that exits solely to crackpasswords...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Fake E-Mail, Other Abuses Plague 'Net | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

...What 'crack' does is to encrypt all the wordsin the dictionary and then match all the words tothe encrypted words. So if people use whole wordsfor passwords then it wouldn't be very had to findthe passwords and then gain access to people'saccounts," says Nina Yuan '94, who wrote herthesis on issues involving electronic security...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Fake E-Mail, Other Abuses Plague 'Net | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

...combat break-in attempts, Harvard hasintroduced a program called "shadow passwords,"which limits access to the file where studentpasswords are stored. Shadow passwords renderprograms like "crack" useless...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Fake E-Mail, Other Abuses Plague 'Net | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

Harvard's yearly cost will finally crack the $25,000 barrier next year, when annual student tuition and fees rise from...

Author: By Martin L. Yeung, | Title: Annual Tuition, Fees for '94-'95 to Top $25,000 | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...Toys-R-Us, a collection of 34 Cabbage Patch Kids yielded only 7 Cabbages of color. And, as everyone knows, as Cabbage Patch Kids go, so goes the nations. Dartboard's crack investigative team sampled several sets of 34 Americans and found that only 7 out of each groups were people of color--the nation has done no better at promoting diversity than has Hasbro...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTABOARD | 3/19/1994 | See Source »

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