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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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>AOL</H3>
<p><strong>From Ydoc10 on Mon, 17 May 1999
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Is there any way to access AOL E-mail without knowing the password
and being undetected?? As in showing mail read, etc.
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Also...same question for AOL IM's....
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Really need to know
Thanks
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Not that I know of. In any event it sounds like
such activities would be illegal and petty. In addition
this question has nothing to do with Linux.
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So, where do you idiots get my address and why do you
ask me these silly, irrelevant and juvenile questions?
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Actually you could "access" AOL E-mail by sniffing any
network connection over which it was travelling. Of
course you'd have get access to said network segment
while the victim was access his or her e-mail.
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You could probably also get it from the victim's
computer if you surrepticiously gained access to
that (it probably appears in temporary files and
possibly in removed/deleted file fragments.
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Naturally you could send the victim a hacked up
"upgrade" to their AOL software and hope that
he or she is stupid enough to install it.
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Then again you could walk into one of the AOL
offices and try to gain direct access to their
servers. That should be entertaining.
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If you actually try any of these moronic schemes
I hope you get promptly arrested and suffer a
humiliating time in the press.
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