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  3. October 2002

Re: Need to generate passwords

Because, eventually someone will notice the "malware" program and/or his
actions and stop him.  They may even deny his account access to the
system and/or terminate his employment, but not always.

If he has other people's passwords, he can still log on after this
happens.  He is also harder to trace, because it looks like a normal user
using the system.


On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Booth Martin wrote:
>
> I am feeling really stupid here.  If an unaudited user is on the system with
> a malware program going anywhere and doing anything why would he bother
> hijacking passwords?
>

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