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From: cjk@ccice2.UUCP (Kreilick)
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Subject: Re: Hackers and others take note
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 12:53:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 12:53:30 1984
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>    "  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.  "
>
I think that anyone that has made unauthorized access to garbage cans  
should be barred from employment as a sanitation engineer.
I think that anyone that has made unauthorized access to a microwave 
oven should be barred from employment in any food services field.
I think that anyone that has been bitten by an unauthorized insect
should be barred from leaving the woods.
I think that anyone that has made unauthorized access to computing  
equipment should be termed a 'hacker', as he should be.