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October 1997, Week 1

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John Park <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 3 Oct 1997 23:39:10 -0700
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Years ago as a user on a system that used the line drawing character
set to 'protect' fields in VIEW, I found that using CNTL-N/CNTL-O on a
cow-orkers terminal could cause the password to appear in the clear...
good for hours of fun!

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John Park                                     'Everything works,
Corvallis, Oregon                                if you let it.'
[log in to unmask]                                      -Meatloaf


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> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re[2]: VPLUS Field Security Protection
> Date: Friday, October 03, 1997 2:25 AM
>
> The security feature of VPLUS is actually an enhancement attribute
and *not*
> a data type.  In addition it does not work on every terminal type.
You may
> want to enable the 'line drawing' character set within that password
field
> instead.
>

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