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Selene wins

I use a program called Sharescan to search the Windows network at Mudd. I have found students sharing archived mail, friends' backup CDs, photos of themselves naked, and entire hard drives. I usually look through the data to determine the owner and remind them that the Windows network is for sharing music inform them that they're sharing data that they probably weren't intending to share.

Today Selene told me over AIM that my shared folder was world-writable. Then she told me my printer was also shared and printed a page saying "Wuzza!" using my printer.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 14th, 2003 at 9:45 pm and is filed under Security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Selene wins”

  1. Mike Wills Says:
    September 15th, 2003 at 6:48 am

    If you have Windows 2000 or XP they by defualt seem to share some folders. They even share the root of you drives. c$ these should be removed.

  2. Ted Mielczarek Says:
    September 15th, 2003 at 7:27 am

    So why are you holding out on us? Where are the naked coeds? ;-)

  3. alanjstr Says:
    September 15th, 2003 at 3:28 pm

    smoooooooth