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- From: lancer@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Stephe Lewis Foskett)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: USA Today KNOWS what a hacker is...
- Message-ID: <1dotlsINNcag@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 18:05:48 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Lines: 48
- Approved: pedxing@ZikZak.com
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-
- >USA TODAY Update
- >Nov. 9, 1992
- >Source: USA TODAY:Gannett National Information Network
-
- >STUDENT ACCUSED OF PURGING DATA:
- > In what might be the first prosecution of its kind, the Justice
- >Department on Friday accused a former University of Cincinnati
- >student of destroying government property - computerized research
- >from the National Security Agency. Tareq Samir Dawod, 23, of
- >Dayton, Ohio, admitted using a computer to purge the data,
- >according to an FBI affidavit.
-
- >DAWOD MAY HAVE BEEN HACKER:
- > Tareq Samir Dawod is accused of destroying computerized
- >research from the National Security Agency and has been charged
- >with destroying governemnet property. "He meant to do what he
- >did," said FBI spokesman Edwin Boldt. "I just don't know if he
- >meant to erase government work or he was just hacking around." A
- >hacker is someone who circumvents security codes for the fun of
- >it.
-
- >[edited]
-
- >SIMILAR CASE LED TO PROBATION:
- > Behlen said the only similar case involved Robert Morris, a
- >former Cornell University student, whom a judge put on probation
- >for three years in 1990. Morris created a program that immobilized
- >thousands of linked government and university computers
- >nationwide. Morris was convicted of computer fraud rather than
- >destruction of government property.
-
- AAAAARGH!!!
-
- Let me quote that again... "A hacker is someone who circumvents
- security codes for the fun of it."
-
- need I say more?
-
- .s.
-
- I'm a hacker who tries to get things to compile under CTIX on my
- miniframe.
-
- OBHack: Getting ANYTHING to compile under CTIX...
- --
- - so spake lancer@wpi.wpi.edu - - 0{{ Welt der Luege: -
- - Hier leben die blinden die glauben was sie sehen -
- - Und die tauben die glauben was sie hoeren -
-