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To: Marty.Hess@Eng.Sun.COM, brian@bari.Eng.Sun.COM, ronni@chryse.Eng.Sun.COM,
        eric@chryse.Eng.Sun.COM, jeanne@chryse.Eng.Sun.COM
Cc: et-people@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: not only is the president on the internet...
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 93 20:30:54 PDT
From: Lisa Chabot <Lisa.Chabot@Eng.Sun.COM>
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from yucks@cs.purdue.edu
>From: ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew C. Plotkin)
Subject: Bet Millie didn't get this
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny

Everybody has been making a great fuss about the President's new e-mail
address, president@whitehouse.gov. And indeed it is a wonderful thing.
(Now his secretaries can throw away his mail and it won't even make a
guilt-inducing pile in the wastebasket. Terrific.)

Of course, we've already tried hacking on it a little, through the
Internet. We know that the IP address is 198.137.240.100. It doesn't do
FTP. You can't finger president@whitehouse.gov and see when he's logged
on. Very clever. Nobody's getting in that way.

So I looked around the 198.137.240.* domain a little...

% /usr/etc/traceroute 198.137.240.101
traceroute to 198.137.240.101 (198.137.240.101), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
[...deleted...]
13  eop.gov (198.137.240.101)  47 ms  51 ms  43 ms

Ok, "eop.gov" -- probably External Office of the President or Eskimo
Oversight Perpetrators or something. Dullsville.

% /usr/etc/traceroute 198.137.240.201
traceroute to 198.137.240.201 (198.137.240.201), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
[...deleted...]
13  socks.eop.gov (198.137.240.201)  51 ms  43 ms  47 ms

Jackpot! The hacker who succeeds in breaking into the cat's computer
will undoubtedly gain complete control over the United States. I can
hardly wait.

[Of course, Socks hasn't been using the system much -- beyond playing
with /dev/mouse a lot.  --spaf]