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Transcript of CBS News segment on the Hackers Conference
filmed 7 Oct 88, aired 8 Oct 88.
Anchorman ("High Technology" logo and drawing of chip): An unusual
conference is under way near San Francisco. The people attending it
are experts on a technology that intimidates most of us, but has changed
the way we live. John Blackstone reports.
Narrator (trees and outdoor scenes at conference): A small revolutionary
army is meeting in the hills above California's Silicon Valley this
weekend, plotting their next attacks on the valley below, the heart
of the nation's computer industry. They call themselves computer hackers.
Jonathan Post: "The people who are gathered here changed the world
once; if we can agree on where to go next, we're gonna change it again."
Narr (conference scenes, blinking lights): What hackers have learned
to do with computers has changed the world, for both good and bad.
They're the people who dreamed of and built the personal computer industry.
But the same kind of talent is creating never before dreamed-of crime.
Because for a computer, the only difference between a hundred and a
million is a few zeros.
Donn Parker, (SRI International, in office): "And so, in fact, criminals
today I think have a new problem to deal with: and that is how much
should I take. They can take any amount they want."
Narr (phone central office): Telephone companies are the most victimized
because those who break into phone company computers can link up for
free to computers around the world.
Richard Fitzmaurice (Pacific Bell, in office): "You'll hear the term
computer hacker, computer cracker; we call them computer criminals."
Narr (blinking lights): But much more frightening are the hackers
who crack American military computers. Earlier this year in a lab that
does some classified research, astronomer Clifford Stoll discovered
someone had broken into his computer. He says it was like finding a
mouse running across the floor.
Stoll (in office): "You watch and you see, he's going in that hole
over there, and you say, ooh, he's going in that hole; that connects
to a network that goes to a military computer, in Okinawa."
Narr (Stoll playing with a yo-yo in a machine room): The breakins
to American military computers went on for several months. Eventually
Stoll traced them to a hacker in West Germany.
Donn (in office): "A hacker today is an extremely potentially dangerous
person. He can do almost anything he wants to do in your computer."
Narr (at conference, video games, stabbing and fighting on screen):
But at the hackers' camp in the hills, there's recognition that in any
revolutionary army there will be a few rogues and criminals. But that's
no reason, they say, to slow down the revolution. John Blackstone,
CBS News, in the hills above Silicon Valley