Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ccice2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!ccice5!ccice2!cjk From: cjk@ccice2.UUCP (Kreilick) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Hackers and others take note Message-ID: <520@ccice2.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 12:53:30 EST Article-I.D.: ccice2.520 Posted: Fri Dec 7 12:53:30 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:14:09 EST References: <2612@dartvax.UUCP> <17488@lanl.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: CCI Central Engineering, Rochester, NY Lines: 39 > > " 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.