NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/cyberspa/936

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From: [e-mail] (Jerry Renault)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
Subject: Re: The Hacker Crackdown
Date: 23 Jan 1993 23:07:47 GMT
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In a previous article, [e-mail] (David M. Cawthon) says:

>My book seems to be a second edition; it is white with a picture on the
>front which looks like the door of a safe ajar to reveal an electronic circuit
>board behind the door.  The subtitle of the book is "The True Story of a
>Computer Intruder Capable of Cracking the Nation's Most Secure Computer
>Systems".

(not very secure if a teenager can crack them =) )

i remember reading a blurb in the San Jose Mercury that said that
the author of the book was missing.  he apparently was depressed and
just dropped out of sight.  he was apparently supposed to meet his
parole officer and never showed up.

in the book, if i remember correctly, there's a mention in passion of
Dark Dante who worked at SRI in menlo park.   when i was there doing a
little internship thingie, he too dropped out of sight and the feds
were looking for him.

maybe both went and joined Elvis, Jim Morrison and Bruce Lee on that
remote desert island.   or maybe there's a serial killer hacker.

j.

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