<div dir="ltr">Cool! Index also under "Disgruntled employee"<div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>Mark</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 August 2015 at 14:48, Walker, Michael A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walker.michael.a@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">walker.michael.a@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I take your mere email hack, and raise you. I remember an episode of Blue Heelers years ago (Season 9 – “Flushed” according to Wikipedia)
based on the incident described in the below link, where a hacker used a backdoor he had either implemented or was aware of to take revenge on his former employer:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Be careful leaving backdoors open, you could end up drowning in…..<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Michael Walker,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 4 August 2015 2:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 SofDev] If you leave your back door open you never know who might get in<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(Stop sniggering. This is serious.)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, disappointed sniffers of whiteboard markers<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Another in my series of software development disasters.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As you know, programmers often include back doors in their code to allow quick and easy high-privilege access during testing.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Unfortunately, they don't <i>always</i> remove the back door from the source code before compilation and implementation.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This can happen to the smallest coders, and the biggest, such as Microsoft in 1999.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This famous example might be worth mentioning to the kids.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.9pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">"The handful of lines of simple HTML code that constitute the exploit took advantage of a Hotmail login script called "start"
that is not currently used on the Hotmail welcome page, and the password "eh."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.9pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">"After examining that code early Monday, outside security experts <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21495.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#666666;text-decoration:none">suggested</span></a> that
the problem might have been a backdoor inadvertently left open on Hotmail servers by Microsoft engineers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:14.9pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">"Microsoft vehemently denied the backdoor suggestions, and instead described the problem as "an unknown security issue."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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