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Date: 1998-11-06
Pentagon-Hacker verknackt
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"Makaveli" und "Too Short", zwei junge US-Adepten des
wenig älteren Israelis "Analyzer", die im Frühjahr ins Herz
des militärisch-elektronischen Komplexes der USA
eingedrungen waren, wurden zu Geldstrafen sowie drei
bitteren Jahren Modem- und Computerabstinenz ver/knackt.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5 (Reuters) -
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U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney ordered the two, aged
16 and 17, to keep their cybernoses clean during their three-
year probation, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced on
Thursday. "The defendants will attend school and make their
grades," the office said, reporting the conditions of probation
imposed during Wednesday's closed sentencing session.
The judge forbade the hackers from possessing or using a
computer modem, from acting as computer consultants, or
having any contact with computers out of sight of "a school
teacher, a librarian, an employer, or other person approved by
the probation officer."
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The two hackers, who have not been officially identified,
pleaded guilty in July to charges of juvenile delinquency
stemming from a string of cyber-attacks in February which
set alarm bells ringing over the state of U.S. computer
security.
After an intensive investigation by the FBI, the Defence
Department and NASA, all alarmed over hacker assaults on
sensitive military and institutional computers, the boys were
cornered on Feb. 25, when FBI agents descended on
Cloverdale, about 75 miles (120 km) north of San Francisco,
searched their homes and seized computers.
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Although officials said no classified networks were
penetrated, the ease with which the hackers accessed
computers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the
U.S. Air Force and other organisations clearly demonstrated
how vulnerable the U.S. computer system had become.
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The teenagers, who went by the codenames "Makaveli" and
"TooShort," pleaded guilty to illegally accessing restricted
computers, using "sniffer" programmes to intercept computer
passwords, and reprogramming computers to allow complete
access to all of their files. They also pleaded guilty to
inserting "backdoor" programmes in the computers to allow
themselves to reenter at will.
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full text
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relayed by
Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>
via
mea culpa <jericho@dimensional.com>
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