(If you're curious, this person peformed a dictionary search on my
database for each and every letter in the dictionary 😉 )
From: Ward Mundy (ward_mundy@ca11.uscourts.gov)
To: noweb4u@telcodata.us
Subject: Thanks
Date: 18 Sep 2002 10:58:30 -0400
Paul,
Before you read your log and have a heart attack that someone has ripped off all your data, I wanted to explain what I was doing. I work for the federal courts and I'm building an emergency SMS notification system so that judges and staff could be alerted in the event of a serious emergency (such as 9/11). In order to build something like this, I obviously needed to know not only the cell phone number of everyone (which we have) but also the cell phone provider. As you probably know, the hi-tech United States doesn't yet have transparent SMS services that most Europeans take for granted. In any case, I needed area codes, prefixes, and cell phone provider names to build my data base. Then all that's missing is email domains for each provider using SMS , e.g. Nextel uses messaging.nextel.com. When I get this finished, I'll be glad to shoot you a copy of the domains of all the providers I can find. It might be a piece of data you would want to consider adding to your already formidable data base down the road. Thanks for your wonderful web site!
–wm
*dictionary* would indicate correct spelling, right?
please reference: *peformed*
oh and let us also review "searched every letter in the dictionary"
was that supposed to be a funny? or am I dense?
Usually people search the alphabet for letters…and search dictionaries for words… *shrug* maybe thats just me ;oþ
Am I totally confuzzled or is your gray matter turning blonde?
Oh, and yes, I was _that_ bored. hehee
A dictionary attack doesn't imply they used words from a dictionary.
They ran what appeared to be a script that requested the names of several phone companies, and then requested the alphabet.
A dictionary attack is where you use a list of words (or single characters) and run them sequentially against the target.
🙂
But considering this is the first time the DOJ has ever sent me a letter where they were happy, this is a good thing 😉
The part about data I created being used to page federal judges is even cooler.
but.. but.. you still said 'every letter in the dictionary'…
Yep, all 26 of them, spread out amongst all the words. 🙂
Damnit, she beat me to both of the comments I was going to make…
:]
I see a name on some of the emails going to a firewalls list that I subscribe to…it reminds me of your LJ ID. The next time I see it I will note it.
And _no_ this is not a pickup line. LOL 😛
And _no_ this is not a pickup line.
Well you didn't have to be so forceful about it…
heheee
I *never* said your lj pic wasn't cute…
Not to mention it makes him look about 4 foot taller than he really is 😉
Damn lawn gnomes!
gnomes rock.
(yeah, gnomes do rock)
I think I've already got a hookup 🙂 If all goes well, I'll be helping a french automaker convert all their closed systems to all linux/open source based stuff.
heh