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Chats led to Acxiom hacker bust
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-12-19

A Cincinnati man who plead guilty Thursday to cracking and cloning giant consumer databases was only caught because he helped out a friend in the hacker community.

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Chats led to Acxiom hacker bust 2003-12-25
Anonymous
I'm not trying to defend Acxiom, who are cetainly open to criticism here, but your observation is utterly without merit. As you should know, any normal FTP server (assuming it was UNIX) will have its account passwords in an encrypted form on the server itself. If you're advocating Kerberos, say so. ...

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