Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb From: rcb@rti-sel.UUCP (Randy Buckland) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Hackers and others take note Message-ID: <31@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 08:39:14 EST Article-I.D.: rti-sel.31 Posted: Wed Dec 5 08:39:14 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:09:50 EST References: <2612@dartvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC Lines: 46 > *** New Issue*** > > I just read an article in USA TODAY that pertains very much to > the net. Now I realize that most of you are not hackers (well, > alright, some of you aren't :-) ). I quote (w/out permission, of > course :-) ) > > " Computer hackers across the USA have ganged > up on a NEWSWEEK reporter, who says his life has > become an electronic-era nightmare since he wrote > about them a month ago. > Correspondent Richard Sandza wrote about hackers > in the Nov. 12 issue, in which some hackers were > called a "new generation of vandals." > In the December 10 issue of NEWSWEEK, the story > is "hackers' revenge" -- on Sandza, who says: > He's received death threats and hundreds of > harassing phone calls. > He's been told his credit card numbers, home > address and social security number have been > stolen from the computerized files of TRW, the > nation's largest credit information operation > -- a federal crime -- and "posted" electronically > nationwide along with requests to "nail this guy." > He's still on "teletrial," where hackers debate > his "case" on an electronic bulletin board called > "Dragonfire" in Gainsville Tecas. > Sandza's first article showed how teen-age computer > whizzes -- who outwit bank, store and government > computer security systems (Who? Us? :-) --have created > their own subculture. > Experts say hackers continue to pierce confidential > data banks at will, and anyone in the files is a potential > victim. > "We've created a generation of criminals and given > them a new way to become vandals," said Sandza, Monday. " > > Right now, I have no Comment on this. Anyone want to say something??? > > --johnc at [...] ! dartvax ! holly Seems like poetic justice to me. Randy Buckland Research Triangle Institute ...!mcnc!rti-sel!rcb