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Colorado Researchers Crack Internet Chess Club
edpin writes "University of Colorado at Boulder students hacked the 30,000-plus-member Internet Chess Club as part of research funded by the National Science Foundation. With guidance from University of
Colorado at Boulder computer security researcher John Black, two students reverse-engineered the service to up their ranks and steal passwords." Update: 10/10 23:05 GMT by T : Reader Bryan Rapp points out that this story duplicates the one posted last month -- sorry about that.
The funny thing is, timothy posted both stories!
As I'm Bobby Fischer.
It seems like only yesterday that the site was hacked, and now it has happened again?
Those admins need a good kick up the backside.
by influencing crackers to dupe their cracks, thus saving other organisations from their unwanted attention.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
They need to use the high security password mechanism used on bank checks.
Don't you have to know how to commit a crime in order to stop folks from commiting crimes?
What you've said is paramount to saying that no sex education will keep us all virgins!!
Cheers,
-- The Dude
Internet Chess Club has more than 30,000 members worldwide and claims Madonna, Nicolas Cage, Will Smith and Gary Kasparov as players.
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
From TFA - "Unless you have a lot of experience, don't try to invent your own security system, it will just be broken"
instead, just bindly trust that handy cryphography API that came with your operating system
- (c) by the NSA
Only morons moderate based on a sig.
My thought was that if this guy has so much experience and feels compelled to preach as an expert, why the hell is in academia? Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can't teach become professors.
You'd think they'd unlock the keys to the playboy/Penthouse site and gain gold membership or something, folks, but nooooo....it hadda be the Chess Club.
To quote Homer's brain, That's it; I'm leaving.
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Umm they were sniffing network traffic, not doing "injections"...
But keep on trucking web guru!
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
This is great! I forgot my password 6 months ago and I can't get anybody to reset it for me - I'll bet these guys have recovered it - woo hoo I can play chess again
... include coverage of people who have nothing better to do with their time than cheat at a board game?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
I mean come on, this is a solvable problem.
Yes, I agree with you. Perhaps the National Science Foundation can dedicate next years grant to solving Slashdot's dupe problem instead of hacking into an internet chess club.
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