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Re: [Full-disclosure] Brute force attack - need your advice



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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