Subj : Security Breach
To   : Ross Cassell
From : Roy Witt
Date : Wed Dec 11 2002 04:34 pm

10 Dec 02 20:45, Ross Cassell wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> I love it when you squirm and wiggle.  Your apology for what
 RW>> happened to your system because it was ill-configed and allowed
 RW>> someone to post in this echo because of that config, blaming that on
 RW>> yours truely, yes it was a tainted apology.  If I felt that there
 RW>> was an apology forthcoming for that, I would have done it long
 RW>> before you posted the first message that you were detective enough
 RW>> to claim it was me.

 RC> So you are saying I made you log in with an assumed name?

If that's what you wanna believe, go for it.

 RC> Gee Roy, if I had that type of control over ya, I would have made you
 RC> hop into you Camaro and drive west to China, long ago. ;-)

That'd be the day.

 RC> Your wrongdoing occurred with the assumed name you used to logon

Kinda like the wrongdoing you did while posting fidonet mail as another
sysop?  What makes you any different?

 RC> with, further complicated by the fact that you are a Fidonet Sysop,
 RC> your usage of the misconfigured echo only added to the mess.

Kinda like when you posted as John Souvestre, eh. At least I didnt' forge
anyone else's node number.

 RC> I can take solace in the fact that you helped me identify an omitted
 RC> configuration setting, I have apologized for that as well as
 RC> corrected it, but I do not owe an apology for your deceptive log on.

Me either.

 RC> I cannot take the blame for you firing up a telnet client and
 RC> operating it from your computer and keyboard.. Thats you sir.

Quite legally, I might add.

 RC> Had you not been a Fidonet sysop, and in your case with the history
 RC> of stuff disturbing that you have, I would not have made it into a
 RC> issue.

Too bad it's backfired on you... LOL!


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