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My favorite incident was back when ISP's gave you Unix shell accounts to get Internet access. I logged into mine, searched back through command history to find the name of an ftp site I had previously connected to, and saw a bunch of "ps -fe" commands. Now I always type in "ps -ef". So I new my account was compromised. (Boring compromise really -- someone sniffed my password, and used my shell account to run an Eggdrop IRC bot).


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