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- From: Various
- Subject: From the Mailbag
- Date: 9 June, 1991
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- From: mpd@ANOMALY.SBS.COM(Michael P. Deignan)
- Subject: Re: Dutch Crackers as opposed to Graham Crackers
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 00:34:29 GMT
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- >The techniques they've
- >used have been simple, well-known and uncreative, and they've found
- >the job an easy one, say sources. "These are not skilled computer
- >geniuses like Robert Morris," said Cliff Stoll, author of The Cuckoo's
- >Egg, who said he's been in contact with some Dutch crackers who may
- >have committed the break-ins. "These are more like the kind of hacker
- >I caught, sort of plodding, boring people." Stoll's 1989 book
- >concerned his pursuit of a cracker.
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- Many times, this is the result of sloppy system administration.
- Recently, one site I FTP'd into had the contents of /etc/passwd
- readable by any FTP user. Makes you wonder about the rest of their
- system security...
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- From: Visualize Whirled Peas <brewer@ACE.ENET.DEC.COM>
- Subject: Article on Kevin Poulsen arrest
- Date: Wed, 5 Jun 91 20:18:29 PDT
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- (The following is a bit old, but some may have missed it first
- time around):
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- "Acting on a tip from an "associate" of the 25 year old computer
- hacker, Pacific Bell investigator Terry Atchley was staking out the
- market (grocery store). He'd warned employees on the night shift
- that Poulsen wanted by the FBI, might show up. When Poulsen, with
- bleached hair and dressed in black jeans, t-shirt and leather
- jacket walked in, packing clerk Dave Hernandez seized the slender
- 5-foor-8 suspect and bear-hugged dim until Atchley handcuffed him."
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- Now when the hell did Pac Bell get granted arrest powers, including
- Deputizing 'packing clerks'....???
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- The rest of the article (Knight Ridder News Service) goes on to
- sensationalize the case. Also arrested was Mark K Lottor who
- evidently was him roomate...
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