From:	"Mark D. Fender" <mfender@******.SGCL.LIB.MO.US>
Subject:	Re: Matrix
Date:	Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:17:26 -0500

On Wed, 19 Apr 1995, Guy Swartwood wrote:

> Mark Fender wrote ---
> >Correction. Computer skill does not cover sliding past password
> >routines. Computer skill covers programming computers. Sure, with
> I believe that the computer skill covers more than just programming...It
> also covers understanding of how one works and using unfamiliar computer
> systems.
>

>
Well, I agree. But how does that help you randomly guess at a password?
Using my current computer skill, I could telenet to your address and
guess at your password all day and I couldn't guess it(Not that I would,
it's just an example. I have my own address thank you very much).
Password guessing is social engineering, plain and simple. The only
possible use of computer skill to guess a password, would be to write a
program that would lodge in their system and record passwords used, or
creat a ramdom gueeser. Either one, would require running some IC, not a
rigger jacking in, as the original post was about.