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On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:22:41PM -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
> I'm trying to remember details (author, title) of a short story that I
> read once. Its main feature, or the one that's standing out in my
> mind, is the obsessive hacker who studies a target to figure out his
> password, at which he only has one guess. The zinger is that the very
> security concious target has selected that password as a booby trap,
> and there's a second password which our hacker doesn't have.
> Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Yes--except that the password wasn't a booby trap, what the user did
was to aways enter a wrong password first, then the right password.
In the story the password guesser was an adult in (IIRC) a 5 year
olds body, and his partner in this crime had his brain burned out by
certain Organized Crime individuals who were not happy with the
passports the password theft made possible.
It was either in an anthology of William Gibsons work, or in an
anthology of cyberpunk stuff from the 80s or early 90s.
Sorry I can't remember any more.
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