Off Topic: Hostile Takeover on IRC

Gail A. Harless (gailh@freedom.landoflakes.com)
Fri, 4 Jul 1997 09:04:40 -0500 (CDT)

One of our top employees irc's regularly. Last night, his channel
experienced a major hostile takeover. The takeover was accomplished using
twelve bots. The primary person who is in charge of the takeover is using
the following address: -1-1-1@cobi.nasa.gov. We are wondering if anyone
out there may know if this NASA link is a restricted link. We understand
that NASA sells accounts and links. But the ".gov" is normally reserved
strictly for government use computers, and the cobi site is a highly
restricted NASA site, although NASA may be selling accounts from them.
My employee was wondering if anyone here knows if that is a NASA account
line or if it is restricted, and if it is restricted, then the hackers can
be dealt with legally.

Please reply via private e-mail.

Thank you.

Gail Harless

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