Word: password
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...root access password to theHarvard system, then they can "do anything theywant," including reading people's e-mail, Kimsaid...
...hinting that parents should abandon the common- sense rules of parental vigilance. For the especially worried, New York State clearinghouse on missing children manager James Stanco suggests knowing exactly, rather than approximately, what your children are wearing in the event you must describe them, and introducing a family password to prevent their walking away with a bogus relative. But, cautions James Fox, dean of Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice, "we should not make them panicky and make them lose their childhood. You don't want them to think that everyone they meet is a potential serial killer...
Okay, so you're not one of the above careless e-mailers. You know to log off and never divulge your password to anyone. You even take the extra cautionary step of protecting your account by changing the password every week...
Does that mean your account is now safe? Not really. Die-hard "hackers" are eager to prove their technical prowess and they will try to access your account the hard way: by guessing your password...
Actually, a hacker of this kind is unlikely to deem it worth his time to break into your account by spending hours if not days in an attempt to "crack" your password. What such hackers love to do is to get the "super-user" privilege on a UNIX system such as the ones Harvard uses so that they can play God on the victimized system...