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To: XaviarCane who wrote (1098)1/12/1998 1:31:00 PM
From: Frank Buck  Read Replies (2) of 1894
 
Xaviar,

I will answer for Cisco. No, the mirror-SI-site is SI. It lampoons the official SI thread sites. It is SI, with certain different header thread titles. It is supposed to come off as the humorous side of the serious side of investing.

Your "Cannot retrieve current document" status is not reserved just to you. SI uses either '95 or NT as an O.S. There is an Achiles heel to that system. (As in most) Unix systems completely fixed theirs. Microsoft developed a partial patch when the Teardrop-C
(original hacking program) came out and found the hole. This new Bonk-C program is a variant of the original Teardrop-C. C is evidently the programming language used to compile the program. These aren't virusses<sp>. They are programs that mess with certain aspects of information-placement. That is why everyone is having difficulty
with SI the past couple of days.

These programs are available on a hackers-board called Root.
Root has the source-code for these programs and hundreds more. If you are thinking about checking Root out you should know that your primary and secondary IDN is automatically revealed. In other words anyone who goes into that site is permanently-identified.

If SI had sufficient firewalls this problem may not have happened.
I would think after this breech we will see tighter security measures.

Frank
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