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- The AOL employee who threatened 16-year-old James Egelhof with a lawsuit
- because of his AOL Sucks Web page now figures prominently in a plan to
- "TOS" Web sites distributing AOHell, along with threats of contacting the
- FBI. (Mitchell's earlier actions are documented at Egelhof's homepage at
- http://www.cloud9.net/~jegelhof.)
-
- The plan is AOL's latest attempt to combat hackers distributing the
- program AOHell. Several employees are discussing the best way respond.
-
- Ironically, their accounts were hacked, and the e-mail posted to internet
- newsgroups.
-
-
- The following was posted to alt.2600, alt.online-service.america-online, and
- alt.aol-sucks.
-
- >From nntp.crl.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail
- Sun Sep 10 09:40:36 1995
- Path: nntp.crl.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail
- From: asymettry@aol.com (Asymettry)
- Newsgroups: alt.aol-sucks
- Subject: AOL Meeting with FBI: Tracking down Da Chronic
- Date: 9 Sep 1995 17:11:43 -0400
- Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
- Lines: 72
- Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
- Message-ID: <42svuf$m8b@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
- Reply-To: asymettry@aol.com (Asymettry)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com
-
- *Peter Hypolite is manager of AOL's Terms of Service Department*
- *You can call him at 703-883-1544*
- *John Gardiner is an Attorney in AOL's employ*
- *You can call him at 703-918-2042*
-
- Date: Fri, Sep 1, 1995 17:19 EDT
- From: PHYPOLITE
- Subj: Fwd: Attendees at AOL/FBI Meeting regarding AOHell
- To: MDHorton
-
- Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
-
- Mike, lets rap about one of your "special forces" coordinating activities
- w/Jason Mitchell (Webmaster) to handle searches of web sites on a regular
- basis, and keeping a report of this.
-
- -Pete
-
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- Forwarded Message:
-
- Date: Thu, Aug 31, 1995 11:26 EDT
- From: GardinerJD
- Subj: Attendees at AOL/FBI Meeting regarding AOHell
- To: PHYPOLITE, DHKirk, PMDAtropos, BWillard
- cc: EKirsh, Dphillips
-
- Posted on: America Online (using WAOL 2.5)
-
- Gentlemen:
-
- I have provided Ellen Kirsh and Dave Phillips a short memo recommending
- the following (in light of our meeting with the FBI last week) which is
- pretty much what we are doing in any case and adds the Fed component:
-
- (1) Webmaster and TOS will monitor newsgroups/web sites for AOHell
- distribution and will pass on the information to the Legal Department.
-
- (2) If its a web page distributing AOHell or a posting offering AOHell,
- Legal will contact the com/org/edu and notify them that their services is
- being used to distribute illegal hacking software. Thus far, every
- com/org/edu has terminated the web site. Postmasters at com/org/edus will
- determine whether the userid should be terminated pursuant to their
- applicable "TOS". This is the best way for us to take action. When we
- get our crimes specialist, he/she will undertake this effort. In the
- meantime, I have been calling and have enlisted Preston Green's assistance
- in tracking things down and making certain calls.
-
- (3) We will inform the com/org/edu that we are forwarding the info the FBI
- and they may be contacted soon. Thus far, Agent McLean has been
- contacting those com/org/edus I have identified. Thus, the FBI can
- investigate and do the leg work of tracking down Da Chronic.
-
- Through this procedure we can take action ourselves to immediately (a) get
- the site/posting deleted and (b) get the perpetrator's service provider
- involved and perhaps terminate his/her userid. Further, with the FBI, DOJ
- and US Attys. offices involved, they can handle the investigation better
- than we can as far as compiling a file of all names associated with
- distribution and tracking Da Chronic. Already I have been told that people
- are screaming (in some newsgroups) for AOHell 4 because web sites have
- been deleted (some I think through our efforts).
-
- Pete and Webmaster should coordinate monitoring activities. For now, info
- should be sent to me and I'll divvy it out for action as per above. Going
- forward, we should have monthly status meetings. I will let you know
- about setting one up for next month when we can discuss our finalized and
- approved policy.
-
- Let me know if you have any thoughts. Thanks.
-
-
- John
-