holly@dartvax.UUCP (Holly Cabell) (12/05/84)
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I just read an article in USA TODAY that pertains very much to
the net. Now I realize that most of you are not hackers (well,
alright, some of you aren't :-) ). I quote (w/out permission, of
course :-) )
" Computer hackers across the USA have ganged
up on a NEWSWEEK reporter, who says his life has
become an electronic-era nightmare since he wrote
about them a month ago.
Correspondent Richard Sandza wrote about hackers
in the Nov. 12 issue, in which some hackers were
called a "new generation of vandals."
In the December 10 issue of NEWSWEEK, the story
is "hackers' revenge" -- on Sandza, who says:
He's received death threats and hundreds of
harassing phone calls.
He's been told his credit card numbers, home
address and social security number have been
stolen from the computerized files of TRW, the
nation's largest credit information operation
-- a federal crime -- and "posted" electronically
nationwide along with requests to "nail this guy."
He's still on "teletrial," where hackers debate
his "case" on an electronic bulletin board called
"Dragonfire" in Gainsville Tecas.
Sandza's first article showed how teen-age computer
whizzes -- who outwit bank, store and government
computer security systems (Who? Us? :-) --have created
their own subculture.
Experts say hackers continue to pierce confidential
data banks at will, and anyone in the files is a potential
victim.
"We've created a generation of criminals and given
them a new way to become vandals," said Sandza, Monday. "
Right now, I have no Comment on this. Anyone want to say something???
--johnc at [...] ! dartvax ! holly