From jordy@newport.thirdwave.net Sun Aug 25 15:34:17 1996 Received: from newport.thirdwave.net (jordy@newport.thirdwave.net [205.136.33.131]) by suburbia.net (8.7.4/Proff-950810) with ESMTP id PAA09877 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:33:57 +1000 Received: from localhost (jordy@localhost) by newport.thirdwave.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA04967; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:40:07 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:40:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Jordy To: SekrtyXprt@aol.com cc: best-of-security@suburbia.net Subject: Re: BoS: Gaping Security Hole In-Reply-To: <960825000843_393312675@emout07.mail.aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 25 Aug 1996 SekrtyXprt@aol.com wrote: :: It has come to my attention that there is a security hole in Windows 95 that :: allows any user to bust out of a passworded screen saver. win95 was never deemed as a secure OS, if you want secure, unplug your machine ;p :: Malicious hackers will be able to penetrate the security of computers at :: major retailers such as walmart, sears and even best buy and modify/detroy :: files. um, yeah, and i can also turn the machine on and off repeatedly and just ruin your hard drive instead, but where is the fun at? :: There is no workaround at this time that I am aware of other than finding a :: more secure screen saver or figuring out a way to disable control-alt-delete. install unix