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Re: [Full-disclosure] Brute force attack - need your advice
- To: Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Brute force attack - need your advice
- From: Simon Smith <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:15:50 -0500
Anyone find any info on how or why Dude passed on?
Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:21:20 EST, Keith Kilroy said:
>
>> The only box that is safe is the one unplugged hdd removed and
>> destroyed and rest of system locked in a closet.
>
> Actually, no. :) Some clever guys at UIUC managed to get a quantum CPU
> that wasn't powered on to do some calculations *anyhow*:
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18925405.700.html
>
> Now, if the program run while it's turned off has an exploitable bug in
> it.....
>
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