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>C O M P U T E R U N D E R G R O U N D<
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>D I G E S T<
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*** Volume 1, Issue #1.12 (June 10, 1990) **
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MODERATORS: Jim Thomas / Gordon Meyer
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REPLY TO: TK0JUT2@NIU.bitnet
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COMPUTER UNDERGROUND DIGEST is an open forum dedicated to sharing
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information among computerists and to the presentation and debate of
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diverse views.
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DISCLAIMER: The views represented herein do not necessarily represent the
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views of the moderators. Contributors assume all responsibility
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for assuring that articles submitted do not violate copyright
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In This Issue:
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File 1: Moderators' Corner (news and notes)
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File 2: From the Mail Bag
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File 3: Another CUCKOO'S EGG Review (By Charles Stanford)
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File 4: Pat Townson Interview with David Tomkin (reprint)
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File 5: Where are they Now? (Tracing CU Magazines)
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*** Computer Underground Digest Issue #1.11 / File 1 of 5 ***
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In this file:
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-- FTP instructions
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-- Policy Statement (revisited)
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FTP INSTRUCTIONS
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Here is a script of a login via ftp.
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You can get a directory by specifying the CuD directory
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in the path (ie... ftp> dir tmp/ftp/CuD.)
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# ftp 128.95.136.2
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Connected to 128.95.136.2.
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220 blake FTP server (Version 4.174 Sat Apr 1 06:11:40 PST 1989) ready.
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Name (128.95.136.2:llo): anonymous
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331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
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Password:
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230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
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ftp> bin
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200 Type set to I.
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ftp> mget tmp/ftp/CuD/*
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ftp> bye
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221 Goodbye.
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# uncompress CuD_1.*
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That should do it.
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:NOTE: The above command 'mget CuD*' will retrieve all of that publication.
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You could just as easily type: 'cd tmp/ftp/CuD' and then 'ls' or 'dir' to
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see the files available to choose from.
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CuD POLICY REVISITED
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We remind contributors to be sure that copyrights are not violated. We
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have been unable to reprint some news stories because they risk going
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beyond fair use doctrine on copyright stories. For the time being, we are
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also restricting some files until legal issues surrounding them are
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resolved. Unfortunately, prosecutors are less than open about what
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constitutes an "illegal file," so we are erring on the side of caution.
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This is one example of the CHILLING EFFECT. The legality of information
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dissemination is decided after the fact, leaving sysops, moderators, and
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others, in a rather precarious state.
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*** Computer Underground Digest Issue #1.12 / File 2 of 5 ***
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IN THIS FILE:
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1) Clarifying the CU
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2) State of CU law in Canada
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%The author of this note requested anonymity. His comments indicate
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the importance of clarifying what computer hobbyists are all about.%
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It is kinda strange,the first thing I read about hacking was Stoll's
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"Cuckoo's Egg" and while reading I felt uncomfortably torn between these
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"monster's and ogres" as he called them and my sense of right and wrong. I
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definately felt drawn toward the hackers, but felt as if I was wrong for
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feeling that way. Everything I have ever heard about hacking was put in a
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negative light. Criminals, vandals etc.
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My recent exposure to the world of computers has been, in retrospect, very
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enlightening. I immediately upon working with computers at work dove into
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books about DOS and such. I constantly sought ways around our menu system,
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although the techniques I used were very very elementary, I felt a sense of
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accomplishment when being able to circumnavigate this login program. I also
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messed a lot with setting things up to happen when certain people logged on
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- practical jokes self deleting batch files and shit like that. I guess
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what I am trying say is that I never equated myself with hackers. The
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media has done a good job of controlling my thoughts about hackers, I have
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thought of them as criminals, and deviants who break in to systems and at
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times mess with other people lives, as in the case of Stoll's book as he
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described the medical research systems break in. Don't get me wrong - I am
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not saying that I am a Hacker but was not aware of it, I am saying that I
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seem to have the same drives and motivations. I think to be a hacker that
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it requires a lot of time and dedication, something to work towards. That is
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something I plan to work on <grin>.
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All in all, I just wanted to say I am glad I found a CUD issue on a local
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(so called respectable) bbs. It has opened a whole new world to me, where I
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already feel at home. I have a long way to go and a lot to learn, but that's
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all right. The only thing that concerns me is that it is very difficult to
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not feel the paranoia with all the busts. However, if I use my head and not
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be foolish, I think I will be all right. There are a lot of good guys out
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there who are helping me out. It is hard to establish trust. Some doubt has
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been thrown my way, in my defense I was going to reply that the SS won't
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ask the naive questions that I ask at times, but from all I here about the
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SS, they don't seem to bright :-)
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If your Digest has done anything to change peoples perception about the
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current state of affairs concerning the world of hacking, it has changed
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mine. Thank you.
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State of the Law in Canada
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Here are several excerpts from an article, titled: The Changing Face of
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Computer Crime, appearing in the May, 1990 issue of Toronto Computes!.
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"Time is also in favour of the culprit," says Sgt. Greg Quesnelle of
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the anti-rackets branch of the Ontario Provincial Police. "A computer
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crime committed years ago may go unnoticed or unreported. As a result
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physical evidence could have been removed or destroyed. If witnesses
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are available and can be located it is very difficult to obtain
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information from people who can no longer recall events as they
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occurred.
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"The police investigator is bound by the rules of evidence according
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to law when investigating computer crimes whereas the criminal has no
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such restrictions. In order to obtain information pertaining to a
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suspect located on a computer data base a Criminal Code search warrant
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must be authorized, whereas a culprit may quickly and illegally hack
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access to information located on a computer mainframe," says Sgt.
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Quesnelle.
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A little further on in the article we have comments attributed to a
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spokesperson from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. . . . .
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If a suspect can be traced, things don't become much easier for law
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enforcement officers. Unlike laws regarding drugs or a stolen car,
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there is no legislation to prosecute someone simply because they
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possess stolen data, says Sgt. King.
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That's the state of things in Canada. This should be taken, however, to
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mean that there are no means to fight _computer_ crime. Getting caught in
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the act of taking data without authorization would most probably leading to
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criminal proceedings and/or civil suit.
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*** Computer Underground Digest Issue #1.12 / File 3 of 5 ***
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Stoll, Clifford. The Cuckoo's Egg. Doubleday, 1989. 326 pp.
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(Reviewed by Charles Stanford)
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Stoll's work has received extremely mixed reviews, and most of the
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reviews were based on the reviewers' personal attitudes towards computer
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use. This review is no exception, but it does attempt to address some of
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the literary concerns that should arise in a book review.
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Stoll takes us on a "spy hunt" -- it is not a fluke that the book is
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located right next to "I Led Three Lives" and other laughable works of
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espionage fiction disguised as reporting. His grant money "ran out" and
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so, to keep eating, he begins to work for the computer center in Berkeley.
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(No explanation of why it "ran out." Did he complete the work? Was his
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renewal rejected through the "peer review process?" Did he even try to
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renew?) There is a 75 cent shortfall and he is given the task of finding
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out where that 75 cents went. He describes his subsequent activity with
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remarkable candor, guilty as he may be of committing several crimes
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himself. He finally gives information leading to the arrest, but not
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necessarily the conviction, of a "hacker." That's about it.
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One of the most annoying aspects of the book is not, however, Stoll's
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pursuit of the hacker but his interminable self-justification and annoying
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self-description.. One has the feeling that Stoll himself knows that his
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activity was obsessive and nearly insane because he so often attempts to
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justify it, painting himself as a liberal hippie type wearing blue-jeans
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and complete with long hair and a "sweetheart" who can beat him at
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wrestling. How cool it all is! Like, man, geez, like. We learn of him
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putting his tennis shoes in the micro-wave and how he rides a bicycle to
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work uphill and how he believes in love and trust and the Grateful Dead and
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how he and his "sweetheart" eventually get married and live happily ever
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after. He grows up, you see. Not since "Love Story" by Eric Seal have I
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seen such a vapid piece of self-indulgence. I was about to say at least
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Eric Segal . . . , but really could not think of anything that would
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differentiate the two.
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Almost at random, we can look at some of his less personal statements
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and see this same thread: "As pure scientists, we're encouraged to
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research any curious phenomena, and can always publish our results." (P.
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15) Unfortunate that this particular "pure scientist" lost his grant. But
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what about that curious phenomena? What about a strange computer or a new
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computer? Is that not curious phenomena? No, because the "varmit" was a
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"hacker" and therefore wearing a "black hat." No, I am not paraphrasing,
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these are Stoll's actual words. He really isn't a hippy after all -- he is
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a frustrated Hopalong Cassidy, the Lone Ranger with his faithful sidekick
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"sweetheart," tracking down the varmits, by gum!
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I have also heard that some of the techniques he describes in the book
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have been used by "hackers" to gain access to mainframe computers but,
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before you run out and buy the book on that account, allow me to present
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some of the information Stoll gives. He starts out by trying to monitor
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every single call coming into the computer, grabbing P.C.s from offices for
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that purpose. He finally applies his expertise. He notices that the calls
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come in at 1200 baud and are therefore from outside and would therefore
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come in only on certain lines. Amazing bit of deduction, wouldn't you say?
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You see, he points out, 1200 baud is a slower rate of transfer than 9600 or
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more. And he even explains what "baud" is. With such esoteric information
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as this getting out all over the country, I wonder why this book hasn't
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been suppressed. We also learn that Kermit is a file transfer protocol.
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Of course there are some things in the book that the normal 12 year
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old with a Commodore 64 might not have known and this book is conveniently
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written on that level. For example, if you want to logon to a Unix system,
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try the password "root," logon "root." If that doesn't work, try "guest."
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If that doesn't work, try UUCP. If you are 12, perhaps Stoll has sent you
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on to a life of crime. On a VAX, try "system" account, password "manager,
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"field, "service," and "user," "user." (p.132). And don't forget the
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Gnu-Emacs hole (132-133). Of course, one would be much better off in
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simply getting hold of a UNIX manual and reading it, but then he would not
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have had the fun of learning all about "sweetheart" and her halloween
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parties as well. I'd put the money on the manual. Actually, of far more
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interest in this area would be the article he published on the subject
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which is cited in the book ("Stalking the Wily Hacker," Communications of
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the ACM, May, 1988).
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More troubling is Stoll's use of the term "hacker." He uses it in its
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popular, media, law-enforcement definition which is, loosely put, "varmit."
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According to the HACKERS DICTIONARY, available from listserve@uicvm, this
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is the definition of a Hacker:
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HACKER (originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe n. 1. A person
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who enjoys learning the details of programming systems and how to stretch
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their capabilities, as opposed to most users who prefer to learn only the
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minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically, or who enjoys
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programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person
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capable of appreciating hack value (q.v.). 4. A person who is good at
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programming quickly. Not everything a hacker produces is a hack. 5. An
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expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or
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on it . . . . 6. A malicious or inquisitive meddler who tries to discover
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information be poking around.
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Obviously, only the last, and least used, definition even remotely
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approaches the term "varmit." Unfortunately, many hackers, when approached
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by law enforcement officers, will readily admit to being hackers when
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questioned about it. Don't make that mistake, varmits.
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As a self-proclaimed hippie-type, Stoll has his greatest trouble in
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explaining why he is so close to the CIA and FBI (which, by the way, had
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the most sensible approach to this whole episode). Now what could you
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possibly come up with to explain that sort of activity. Unfortunately,
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being a hippie by self-definition, he could not use patriotism. He
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couldn't say he was in it for the money (which he is, despite his
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protestations to the contrary) since that is not hippieish -- it is
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"uncool." He comes up with "trust." A nice, honorable, clean sounding
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term. Yes, trust it shall be. You see, all the network users trust each
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other, now don't they? The proposition is almost laughable to anyone who
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has ever been on a network, but Stoll will talk about the community of
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trust that has been established, a trust that is being destroyed and eroded
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by varmits. His appropriation of that word is almost obscene when one
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considers what his self-aggrandizement has done to that very trust he so
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values.
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One argument he uses to support his activities is that your own credit
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information is in one of those systems. Now you wouldn't want that
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available to the general public would you? Would you want a 12 year old to
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know your buying habits? The fact is that corporate America knows this and
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wants to keep it their exclusive domain. Whether the information is false
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or not, they do not want you to know about it, but they will share it
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amongst themselves. Sometimes they sell the information back and forth. I
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think there is far more danger from that than there is from some "varmit,"
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peeking into one of their systems. Those lily-livered, sap sucking,
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sidewinders (sorry, couldn't help it).
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Clifford Stoll now "... lives in Cambridge with his wife, Martha
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Matthews, and two cats he pretends to dislike." (p.327) I think that is a
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very touching, cute, detail about him, perfect to end the book because it
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is typical of the sorts of things he litters the manuscript with
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throughout.
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This is where the review should end. It is neat, compact, obligatory
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description, sustained attack, and has a cute ending to wrap things up, and
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this is how I would end it if I were getting paid to write the review.
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However, since I am not getting anything out of this, I feel free to add a
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bit more, also gratis.
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Since Stoll lists his E-Mail address, and since I like to be
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thorough, I decided to write him a note and see what would happen. Why
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should I just decided that he is posturing? Why not find out for sure?
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Maybe the address does not work. What could be lost by trying? (Well, I
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could have the three letter agencies after me but the pursuit of truth and
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so on is more important --well, perhaps.)
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At any rate, I had two major questions lingering in my mind: just
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what was this grant all about and does he get much nuisance mail as a
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result of publishing his E-Mail address. I sent the questions to his
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number at about 3:30 my time and started to pack for a trip out of town.
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Shortly thereafter, I logged on again to check last minute mail and to
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delete a bunch of stuff and found this on my screen: "56 30 May
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cliff@cfa253.harv Re: questions". Well, I could not just leave at that
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point. Frankly, I was a bit surprised. I had expected to get some note
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from somewhere along the networks to the effect that the user was unknown
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or perhaps some indication that a trace had been started by some illiterate
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narc.
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Instead, Stoll had replied, almost immediately, to my note. Hm, he
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seems to attend to his E-mail they same way I do mine. This is how he
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answered the first question:
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Grant money ran out? In short, the project moved to Hawaii. I
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was on the design team for the Keck Observatory Ten Meter
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Telescope. The Science Office, at LBL, designed the instrument.
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As the design progressed into construction, there was less
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research to do and more contract oversight. This, in turn, meant
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that our grant money ran thin. So I began working part time at
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the computing center.
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And so, for lack of proper federal funding, the entire spy/witch hunt
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began.
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An interesting thing about this is what kind of astronomy is being
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done? It reminds me of wanting at one time to be a cosmologist and being
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deflected time and time again by other considerations. Stoll may have
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started with an interest in the stars, perhaps in the origin of the
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universe, but wound up working with the computers instead. Oh well,
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nothing wrong with that, but interesting just the same. I wonder when he
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last was able actually to look through a telescope.
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The next question was a bit loaded as I knew he had gotten not only
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nuisance mail but some pretty nasty threats. I also knew of some other
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attempts, but no matter. His response is interesting:
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Nuisance mail? Yes, a few morons send anonymous mail; I've
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received threatening phone calls and such not. Compared to the
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mountain of nice mail I've received, I'm happy that I published
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my e-mail address. In fact, the best part of publishing the book
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has been the letters. I answer each one personally - no form
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letters or macros.
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Cheers,
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Cliff Stoll
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So what does this indicate? He was not posturing! I remembered then
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seeing him on CSPAN, an hour long interview with no commercial
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interruptions and, at that time, I found it difficult to believe that he
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was posturing, but now I'm even more certain. In short, he actually
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believes what he wrote. There is probably not one false note in the book.
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Which raises an even more troubling problem. I am able to understand
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someone who pretends to be for such issues as "trust" in order to gain
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acceptance -- almost every politician falls into this category and I grew
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up in Chicago when Daley Sr. was Mayor. What is almost frightening is
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someone who actually believes that he is making the world safe for
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democracy, freedom, and the American way by camping out under his desk at
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the computer lab with sixteen P.C.'s whirring away monitoring the
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mainframe, rigging up a pager so that every time a call came in he could
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peddle uphill in hopes of catching the miscreant.
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But there is more. I wrote him another note. I wanted to
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clarify a few other things. For example, I found the personal
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parts of the narrative problematic. I told him so and asked him
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if they were his idea or forced upon him by a zealous editor. I
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asked a few other questions as well and he responded. However, I
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also asked for permission to reprint his answers verbatim, but he
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either overlooked the request or thought it irrelevant
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considering his response which was, basically, to the effect that
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I should go ahead with the review based on my response, not his
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replies.
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At any rate, the gist of the letter, a rather lengthy one, was that
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one thing lacking in our culture is a popular literature relating to
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technology and that he wanted to help correct this deficiency. In other
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words, the book is not written for people who already know about computers
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(indeed, this seems to be a major source of confusion on the matter), but
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for the general public, the lay folk out there, who know nothing about
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networks. The people who think anyone who works with computers is some
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sort of recluse, a demented misfit. (Gordon Meyer's infamous Masters
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Thesis comes to mind here.)
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Stoll has an excellent point here -- we do lack such a
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literature. Certainly, the work of Carl Sagan and earlier Isaac Asimov
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served somewhat to breach this gap, but not the way Stoll's does. In fact,
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I have already begun work on one of my own, tentatively titled "Cops,
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Cuckoos, and Computer Jurisprudence."
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In short, if you know a bit about computers and computer networks, are
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familiar with UNIX and a few operating systems, you already know too much
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to enjoy this book. If you are entirely ignorant of them and if you liked
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Love Story, this is the book for you.
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Charles Stanford
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FROM: TELECOM Digest, V10, #418 (by Pat Townson)
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Date: Thu, 7 Jun 90 0:21:34 CDT
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From: TELECOM Moderator <telecom@eecs.nwu.edu>
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Subject: Crackers, Kapor and Len Rose
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I have been deliberating holding messages on Kapor and the cracker
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situation which have arrived this week. Thursday evening there will be at
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least two special issues devoted to this topic, and I will be picking
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several messages to include. I was going to have one special issue, and
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that would have accomodated only a few letters. A second issue will allow
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me to include a couple lengthy replies. Because the topic is starting to
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stray far away from telecom and into areas of the law and computer
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security, etc, this will be the last batch I can print. Several of these
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items Thursday night will be replies to me, which is the main reason I am
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running them ... and I won't even be able to include all of them, so heavy
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is the flow.
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Late Tuesday night, David Tamkin and I had a chance to speak at length with
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someone close to the scene involving Len Rose. Some things were off the
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record, at the request of Mr. Rose's attorney, and I agreed to honor that
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request.
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Apparently the Secret Service seized *every single electronic item* in his
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household -- not just his computers. I am told they even took away a box
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containing his Army medals, some family pictures, and similar. It is my
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understanding his attorney has filed a motion in court to force the Secret
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Service to return at least *some* of his computer equipment, since without
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any of it, he is unable to work for any of his clients at all without at
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least one modem and computer.
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I am told the Secret Service broke down some doors to a storage area in the
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basement rather than simply have him unlock the area with a key. I am told
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further that he was advised he could pick up his fax machine (which had
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been seized, along with boxes and boxes of technical books, etc), but that
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when he did so, he was instead arrested and held for several hours in the
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County Jail there.
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Mr. Rose believes he will be found innocent of charges (rephrased) that he
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was the 'leader of the Legion of Doom', and that he had broken into
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'numerous computers over the years'.
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I invited Mr. Rose and/or his attorney to issue a detailed statement to the
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Digest, and promised that upon receipt it would be run promptly. I don't
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think such a statement will be coming any time soon since his attorney has
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pretty much ordered him to be silent on the matter until the trial.
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If the things he says about the Secret Service raid on his home are
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determined to be factual, then combined with complaints of the same nature
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where Steve Jackson Games is concerned I would have to say it seems to me
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the Secret Service might have been a bit less zealous.
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The revelations in the weeks and months ahead should be very interesting.
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One of the items I will include in the special issues on Thursday night is
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the report which appeared in the %Baltimore Sun% last weekend. This case
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seems to get more complicated every day.
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** WHERE ARE THEY NOW? **
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We're periodically asked what's happened to the various CU magazines that
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have appeared over the years. Many were short-lived, others are still
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going. We can't list them all, but here's a list of the most prominent:
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2600 MAGAZINE: Probably the best of its kind, 2600 is still going strong.
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2600 MAGAZINE is the primary source of information into the worldwide
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hacking scene. From information on the inner workings of phone companies to
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the latest security breaches on computer operating systems to the abuse of
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technology BY the authorities, 2600 is a vital tool for anyone who wants to
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know what is REALLY going on. Written by hackers for hackers and anyone who
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wants to learn a thing or two.
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Subscriptions are $18 US per year in U.S. and Canada for individuals; $45
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for corporations and institutions; $30 individuals overseas; $65
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corporations/institutions overseas. Back issues are available from 1984 for
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$25 per year, $30 per year overseas.
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The address of 2600 MAGAZINE is: 2600, PO Box 752, Middle Island, NY
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11953. Telephone: (516) 751-2600, FAX (516) 751-2608.
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TAP: TAP, too, is still going. It's "anarchist" thrust seems to have
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mellowed, but it is still a fine source of information. Copies are
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available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope (or on some blurbs
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just a stamp) to:
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TAP P.O. Box 20264 Louisville, KY 40220
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PHRACK: Begun in November, 1986, PHRACK was the primary phreak/hacker
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magazine. It was more than just a technical journal. Its profiles, world
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news, and occasional pieces of satirical fiction made it the premier outlet
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of its kind. Those who see it only as a primer for hacking have obviously
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failed to read the entire work, and its "world news" alone was worth a
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download. Thirty issues were put out before the January, 1990, indictment
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of one of the co-editors, but it has since been resurrected (*NOT* by the
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original editors) and PHRACK 31 appeared in late May, '90.
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PIRATE: Although only five issues have appeared to date, PIRATE provided
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the most sophisticated overview of what pirating is. Apparently internal
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disputes over whether it should be a broad-based journal or a "how to"
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manual led to the original editors and contributors (who favored discussing
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broad issues) leaving, and to our knowledge, #5 is the latest, and perhaps
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last.
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ATI: Anarchist Times, Inc., appears periodically. It is a cross between
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PHRACK and TAP, and perhaps the most politically oriented of any of the
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magazines. ATI can be downloaded from most good boards or from The Red
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Board, its home base. To date, 48 issues have appeared.
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SYNDICATE REPORTS: The Sensei are apparently still putting this out, and it
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is available on the better boards. It should be added to our archives
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within the next few weeks.
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P/Hun: A technical/anarchist type journal, P/Hun is a primer of sorts.
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Although lacking the broad coverage of PHRACK, it provides an interesting
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document for those interested in understanding this aspect of the CU. Issue
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#5 appeared in May, '90.
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LoD/H Technical Journal: The title is obvious. Only three issues appeared
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(despite a typo in an earlier CuD). Issue #4 was aborted because of the
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raids. It can be found on most CU boards.
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Other groups have put out editions. PTL's cracking manual, an ambitious
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book-length primer on cracking tips, was intended to be followed by others,
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but to our knowledge none have appeared. INC puts out an occasional
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newsletter, most recently in a rather glitzy, but fun, .exe format.
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"Hackers R Us" intended to publish a magazine, but we have seen nothing
|
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after the initial issues. Cybertek (not the original) focuses on what its
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name implies. Cybertek is available at Trash American Style, Milltown Rd.,
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Danbury CT. The second issue should have appeared by now. Cult of the
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Dead Cow (CDC) blurbs appear periodically, but the contents are usually of
|
|
little interest to any but a small group of dedicated heavy metal loving
|
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anarchists. There are many, many others, but these seem to be the most
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popular and widely disseminated.
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Two Electronic mail digests also provide occasional, but limited, debates
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and commentary on CU-related issues:
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RISKS: RISKS@CSL.SRI.COM.bitnet
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TELECOM DIGEST: TELECOM@EECS.NWU.EDU.bitnet
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