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oldbloke at 02:11pm on 10/05/2006
oldbloke at 02:11pm on 10/05/2006Our cert mailing list got a couple of messages today about a guy who'd asked in a hacking forum for somebody to get into Man Uni and find him some exam papers - 5 papers for which he'd pay $600 each.
Now, there are only 5 people on campus with the first name he used, and a couple of them can be ruled out immediately. But he was using an account that doesn't match that name when he connected to the forum, and although we have the NTL IP he was on, we're not sure if it's worth asking them who leased that IP at the relevant time. Partly because, of course, exam papers are never ever under pain of death kept online. Obviously we have to have a word with the owner of the account, though, coz it was either him or he's let somebody know his pw (or left a logged in machine unnattended)
Now, there are only 5 people on campus with the first name he used, and a couple of them can be ruled out immediately. But he was using an account that doesn't match that name when he connected to the forum, and although we have the NTL IP he was on, we're not sure if it's worth asking them who leased that IP at the relevant time. Partly because, of course, exam papers are never ever under pain of death kept online. Obviously we have to have a word with the owner of the account, though, coz it was either him or he's let somebody know his pw (or left a logged in machine unnattended)
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