Hacking and "Amateurism"

[John Bryan]

In <1916 at hpwala.wal.hp.com> lupienj at hpwadac.hp.com (John Lupien) writes:

>In article <1991Mar27.094325.24599 at en.ecn.purdue.edu> kidder at en.ecn.purdue.edu (Mark Stephen Kidder) writes:
>>PS I learned earlier from another that UNIX does not use a DES
>>   encryption method for the password; however, a one-way method
>>   is used making decoding a password impossible.
>                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^
>To borrow a phrase from one of those "Airplane" movies, "You use that
>word a lot. I don't think it means what you think it means."
>
> ... [ deleted ] ...
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>John R. Lupien
>lupienj at hpwarq.hp.com

I can't resist. The movie in question is "The Princess Bride", not any
of the Airplane movies. And the word in question there was "inconceivable!"

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