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Thus began a game of cat and mouse that led Stoll and half a dozen investigative agencies far beyond the Berkeley campus. For ten months, they followed the hacker as he wended his way through the networks that link U.S. military and industrial computers all over the world. By the time the hacker was tracked to a ground-floor apartment in Hannover, West Germany, he had accomplished perhaps the most extensive breach of U.S. computer security to date. While no top secrets appear to have been uncovered, the incident shows how easy it can be to go fishing for sensitive...
...case first came to light in the West German weekly Quick, which identified the suspect as a 24-year-old computer-science student with the pseudonym Mathias Speer. In a press conference last week, his pursuer, Stoll, described how the young hacker used the Lawrence Lab computer as a gateway to Internet, a U.S. Government-owned network that connects some 20,000 computers handling scientific research and unclassified military work. While Speer used fairly standard techniques for cracking passwords, he showed uncommon persistence. He attacked some 450 different computers and gained access to more than 30. Victims ranged from...
Jonathan D. Hacker '90 said divestment shouldbe discussed, and members of Stop WithholdingAccess Today (SWAT) urged the studentrepresentatives to support the complaint filed byLisa J. Schkolnick '88 against the Fly Club'sall-male membership rules
...Jeffery Crespin Y Y David Eich (absent) (absent) Richard Eisert N N Valerie Feldman Y Y Matt Finch N N Todd Flynn N N Alex Frenkel N Y Mike Goldenberg Y Y David Golob N N Rob Greenstein Y Y Jennifer Grossman Y Y Steve Grover Y Y Jonathan Hacker N Y Stephen Hearst Y Y George Ho Y Y Bonnie Huang Y Y Elizabeth Hughes N N Barry Hume N Y Ramon Jacobson Y Y Amy Kaji N Y Kathy Kelly (absent) (absent) Randall Kempner Y Y Steve Kern N N Sandra Kim N Y K.C. Klegar...
Questioning quickly turned to tenure, as Jonathan Hacker '89 asked Spence to cite any specific "weaknesses in the [system] it would be valuable for the council to examine...