If You Hack NBC, You Don't Get to Meet Tom Brokaw

subgeek writes "Security Focus Online is carrying this story about the spot that Adrian Lamo almost had on the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. NBC changed their mind after they realized the possible legal implications of filming someone hack corporate systems. NBC also seemed a bit touchy that Lamo had gotten into their system so handily. According to the article, it took him about five minutes and one guessed password to get inside NBC's intranet from a computer at a Kinko's. Lamo's comment: "It was a very full service system.""

Comments

Re:Unfortunate Last Name

[Wind_Walker]

Actually, the SNL skit you're referring to had the punchline of "Azwipe".

The "Dumass" you're referring to is either the "Thick-Headed" commercial for A&W Root Beer, or from The Shawshank Redemption tring to pronounce Alexandre Dumas.

Not that I'm anal or anything.

Re:As an ex-genius, I can tell you (all facts)

[alienmole]

Easy:

The entire premise of "secure Mac OS" web servers is based on two factors:

1. Reduced functionality tends to improve security. Mac OS web servers have extremely limited functionality, therefore are more secure by default.
2. Mac OS web servers are not widely used (a serious understatement, hardly anyone uses them), and are thus not targets for attacks. There was a time when it was quite safe to put an unprotected Windows web server on the Internet, for the same reasons, and we all know how secure they turned out to be.

It would thus be accurate to say "The Mac OS web server may be a good choice if you are clueless, do not know how to administer secure servers, and want to run an OS that is now officially obsolete."

Re:As an ex-hacker I tend to only trust Mac OS ser

[foobar104]

If MacOS is so great, why does Apple use Solaris?

Akamai. Apple's web site is distributed. When you connect to apple.com, you're actually getting www.apple.com.akadns.net, which runs on Solaris.