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MODERATORS: Jim Thomas / Gordon Meyer (TK0JUT2@NIU.bitnet)
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CONTENTS:
File 1: Moderators' Corner
File 2: EFF mailing #3: About the Electronic Frontier Foundation
File 3: Len Rose's Search Warrant
File 4: What to Read When the SS is at the Door
File 5: CU in the News: More on the NY Raids
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Date: August 24, 1990
From: Moderators
Subject: Moderators' Corner
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In this file:
1) NATIONAL COMPUTER SECURITY CONFERENCE
2) LEN ROSE/DR. RIPCO UPDATES
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National Computer Security Conference
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Dorothy Denning has reminded us that the 13th National Computer Security
Conference will be held Oct. 1-4 in Washington, D.C. Dorothy will be
moderating a panel titled "Hackers: Who are They?"
The panelists will be:
Frank Drake, editor of W.O.R.M.
Emmanuel Goldstein, editor of 2600
Katie Hafner, author
Gordon Meyer, co-editor of CuD
Craig Neidorf, former publisher of Phrack
Sheldon Zenner, attorney
The panel will be on Oct. 4 at 9:00am. In addition, Dorothy will present
my paper "Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computer Systems" on Wednesday
afternoon.
For more information, call Tammie Grice at 301-975-2775. Highlights of the
program are in RISKS DIGEST 10.22, which can be read on comp.risks. The
complete program can be obtained by FTP from cert.sei.cmu.edu. It is file
ncsc.1990.program in directory pub/virus-l/docs.
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Len Rose / Dr. Ripco Updates
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Progress is often slow, and there is little to report about the Len Rose
and Dr. Ripco situations. Although the cases are unrelated, both raise
similar issues about law enforcement handling of alleged computer abuse.
Dr. Ripco still remains uncharged, his equipment remains unreturned. Len
Rose still faces trial in February. But, the EFF is currently looking into
both cases to see what legal issues they raise.
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From: well!eff-news-request@APPLE.COM
Subject: EFF mailing #3: About the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 90 21:02:14 PDT
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[Our story so far: If you're getting this message, you either asked to be
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EFF. We have sent out two mailings before this one; if you missed them and
want copies, send a request to eff-news-request@well.sf.ca.us. We now have
two Usenet newsgroups set up, in the "inet" distribution. The moderated
newsgroup, comp.org.eff.news, will carry everything we send to this mailing
list, plus other things of interest. If your site gets the newsgroup and
you want to read this stuff there instead of through the mailing list, send
a request to eff-news-request@well.sf.ca.us and I'll be happy to take you
off the list. And now...]
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About the EFF
General Information
Revised August 1990
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The EFF (formally the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc.) has been
established to help civilize the electronic frontier; to make it truly
useful and beneficial not just to a technical elite, but to everyone; and
to do this in a way which is in keeping with our society's highest
traditions of the free and open flow of information and communication.
The EFF now has legal status as a corporation in the state of
Massachusetts. We are in the process of applying to the IRS for status as
a non-profit, 501c3 organization. Once that status is granted contributions
to the EFF will be tax-deductible.
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Mission of the EFF
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1. to engage in and support educational activities which increase
popular understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by
developments in computing and telecommunications.
2. to develop among policy-makers a better understanding of the issues
underlying free and open telecommunications, and support the creation of
legal and structural approaches which will ease the assimilation of these
new technologies by society.
3. to raise public awareness about civil liberties issues arising from
the rapid advancement in the area of new computer-based communications
media and, where necessary, support litigation in the public interest to
preserve, protect, and extend First Amendment rights within the realm of
computing and telecommunications technology.
4. to encourage and support the development of new tools which will
endow non-technical users with full and easy access to computer-based
telecommunications.
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Current EFF Activities
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> We are helping educate policy makers and the general public.
To this end we have funded a significant two-year project on computing and
civil liberties to be managed by the Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility. With it, we aim to acquaint policy makers and law
enforcement officials of the civil liberties issues which may lie hidden in
the brambles of telecommunications policy.
Members of the EFF are speaking at computer and government conferences and
meetings throughout the country to raise awareness about the important
civil liberties issues.
We are in the process of forming alliances with other other public interest
organizations concerned with the development of a digital national
information infrastructure.
The EFF is in the early stages of software design and development of
programs for personal computers which provide simplified and enhanced
access to network services such as mail and netnews.
Because our resources are already fully committed to these projects, we are
not at this time considering additional grant proposals.
> We are helping defend the innocent.
We gave substantial legal support in the criminal defense of Craig Neidorf,
the publisher of Phrack, an on-line magazine devoted to telecommunications,
computer security and hacking. Neidorf was indicted on felony charges of
wire fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property for the
electronic publication of a document which someone else had removed,
without Neidorf's participation, from a Bell South computer. The
government contended that the republication of proprietary business
information, even if the information is of public significance, is illegal.
The EFF submitted two friend of the court briefs arguing that the
publication of the disputed document was constitutionally protected speech.
We also were instrumental in locating an expert witness who located
documents which were publicly available from Bell South which contained all
the information in the disputed document. This information was critical in
discrediting the government's expert witness. The government dropped its
prosecution in the middle of the trial, when it became aware that its case
was untenable.
EFF attorneys are also representing Steve Jackson Games in its efforts to
secure the complete return and restoration of all computer equipment seized
in the Secret Service raid on its offices and to understand what might have
been the legal basis for the raid.
We are not involved in these legal matters as a "cracker's defense fund,"
despite press reports you may have read, but rather to ensure that the
Constitution will continue to apply to digital media. We intend to
demonstrate legally that speech is speech whether it finds form in ink or
in ASCII.
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What can you do?
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For starters, you can spread the word about EFF as widely as possible, both
on and off the Net. Feel free, for example, to distribute any of the
materials included in this or other EFF mailings.
You can turn some of the immense processing horsepower of your distributed
Mind to the task of finding useful new metaphors for community, expression,
property, privacy and other realities of the physical world which seem up
for grabs in these less tangible regions.
And you can try to communicate to technically unsophisticated friends the
extent to which their future freedoms and well-being may depend on
understanding the broad forms of digital communication, if not necessarily
the technical details.
Finally, you can keep in touch with us at any of the addresses listed
below. Please pass on your thoughts, concerns, insights, contacts,
suggestions, and news. And we will return the favor.
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Staying in Touch
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Send requests to be added to or dropped from the EFF mailing list or other
general correspondence to eff-request@well.sf.ca.us. We will periodically
mail updates on EFF-related activities to this list.
If you receive any USENET newsgroups, your site may carry two new
newsgroups in the INET distribution called comp.org.eff.news and
comp.org.eff.talk. The former is a moderated newsgroup of announcements,
responses to announcements, and selected discussion drawn from the
unmoderated "talk" group and the mailing list.
Everything that goes out over the EFF mailing list will also be posted in
comp.org.eff.news, so if you read the newsgroup you don't need to subscribe
to the mailing list.
Postings submitted to the moderated newsgroup may be reprinted by the EFF.
To submit a posting, you may send mail to eff@well.sf.ca.us.
There is an active EFF conference on the Well, as well as many other
related conferences of interest to EFF supporters. As of August 1990,
access to the Well is $8/month plus $3/hour. Outside the S.F. Bay area,
telecom access for $5/hr. is available through CPN. Register online at
(415) 332-6106.
A document library containing all of the EFF news releases, John Barlow's
"Crime and Puzzlement" and others is available on the Well. We are working
toward providing FTP availability into the document library through an EFF
host system to be set up in Cambridge,
Mass. Details will be forthcoming.
Our Address:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc.
One Cambridge Center, Suite 300
Cambridge, MA 02142
(617) 577-1385
(617) 225-2347 (fax)
After August 25, 1990:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc.
155 Second Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
We will distribute the new telephone number once we have it.
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Mitchell Kapor (mkapor@well.sf.ca.us)
John Perry Barlow (barlow@well.sf.ca.us)
Postings and email for the moderated newsgroup should be sent
to "comp-org-eff-news@well.sf.ca.us".
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Date: Undated
From: Anonymous
Subject: Len Rose's Search Warrant
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
District of Maryland
APPLICATION AND AFFIDAVIT
FOR SEARCH WARRANT
In the matter of the Search of:
Residence of
7018 Willow Tree Drive CASE NUMBER: 90-0002G
Middletown, Maryland
I Timothy Foley being duly sworn depose and say:
I am a Special Agent and have reason to believe that on the property or
premises known as: the residence at 7018 Willow Tree Drive, Middletown,
Maryland (see attachment B) in the District of Maryland there is now
concealed a certain person or property ,namely (see attachment A) which is
concerning a violation of Title 18 United States code,Sections 2314 and 1030.
The facts to support a finding of Probable Cause are as follows: (see
attachment C)
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence
February 1,1990 at Baltimore Maryland
Clarence F. Goetz,U.S. Magistrate
ATTACHMENT A
computer hardware (including central processing unit(s),monitors,memory
devices, modem(s), programming equipment,communications equipment,disks,
prints,and computer software (including but not limited to memory disks,
floppy disks, storage media) and written material and documents relating
to the use of the computer system (including networking access files,
documentation relating to the attacking of computer and advertising the
results of the computer attack (including telephone numbers and location
information), which constitute evidence,instrumentalities and fruits of
federal crimes, including interstate transportation of stolen property
(18 USC 2314) and interstate transportation of computer access information
(18 USC 1030(a)(6)). This warrant is for the seizure of the above described
computer and computer data and for the authorization to read information
stored and contained on the above described computer and computer data.
ATTACHMENT B
Two level split-foyer style house with a upper story overhang on either
side of a central indentation for the front door. House is white upper
with red brick lower portion under the overhanging upper story. Front
door is white. There is a driveway on the lefthand side of the house as
you face the front. Mail box is situated on a post adjacent to the
driveway and mailbox displays the number 7018.
ATTACHMENT C
State of Maryland )
) SS
County of Frederick )
AFFIDAVIT
1. I, Timothy Foley, am a Special Agent of the United States Secret Service
and have been so employed for the past two years. I am presently assigned
to the Computer Fraud Section of the United States Secret Service in
Chicago. Prior to that I was employed as an attorney of law practicing
in the City of Chicago and admitted to practice in the State of Illinois.
I am submitting this affidavit in support of the search warrant for the
premises known as the residence of Leonard Rose at 7018 Willow Tree Drive
in Middletown, Maryland.
2. This affidavit is based upon my investigation and information provided
to me by Special Agent Barbara Golden of the Computer Fraud Section of
the United States Secret Service in Chicago. S.A. Golden has been
employed by the Secret Service for 13 years, and has been a Special Agent
with the Secret Service for 3 years and by other agents of the United
States Secret Service.
3. I have also received technical information and investigative assistance
from the experts in the fields of telecommunications, computer technology,
software development and computer security technology, including:
a. Reed Newlin, a Security Officer of Southwestern Bell, who has numerous
years of experience in operations,maintenance and administration of
telecommunication systems as an employee of the Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company.
b. Henry M. Kluepfel, who has been employed by the Bell System or its
divested companies for the last twenty-four years. Kleupfel is
presently employed by Bell Communications Research, (Bellcore) as
a district manager responsible for coordinating security technology
and consultation at Bellcore in support of its owners, the seven (7)
regional telephone companies, including BellSouth Telephone Company
and Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Mr. Kleupfel has participated
in the execution of numerous Federal and State search warrants relative
to telecommunications and computer fraud investigations. In addition,
Mr. Kleupfel has testified on at least twelve (12) occasions as an
expert witness in telecommunications and computer fraud related
crimes.
c. David S. Bauer, who has been employed by Bell Communications Research,
(Bellcore) since April 1987. Bauer is a member of the technical staff
responsible for research and development in computer security
technology and for consultation in support for its owners, the seven
(7) regional telephone companies, including BellSouth. Mr. Bauer is
an expert in software development,communications operating systems,
telephone and related security technologies. Mr. Bauer has conducted
the review and analysis of approximately eleven (11) computer hacking
investigations for Bellcore. He has over nine (9) years of professional
experience in the computer related field.
d. At all times relevant to this affidavit, "computer hackers" were
individuals involved with the unauthorized access of computer systems
by various means. The assumed names used by the hackers when contacting
each other were referred to as "hacker handles."
Violations Involved
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5. 18 USC 2314 provides federal criminal sanctions against individuals
who knowingly and intentionally transport stolen property or property
obtained by fraud, valued at $5,000.00 or more, in interstate commerce.
My investigation has revealed that on or about January 8, 1990
Leonard Rose, using the hacker handle Terminus, transported a stolen
or fraudulently obtained computer program worth $77,000.00 from
Middletown, Maryland to Columbia, Missouri.
6. 18 USC 1030(a) (6) provides federal criminal sanctions against
individuals who knowingly and with intent to defraud traffic in
interstate commerce any information through which a computer may be
accessed without authorization in interstate commerce. My investigation
has revealed that on or about January 8,1990 Leonard Rose trafficked
a specially modified copy of AT&T Unix source code SVR 3.2 in interstate
commerce from Middletown, Maryland to Columbia,Missouri. (Source code
is a high level computer language which frequently uses English letters
and symbols for constructing computer programs. Programs written in
source code can be converted or translated by a "compiler" program into
object code for use by the computer.) This Unix source code SVR 3.2 had
been specially modified so that it could be inserted by a computer hacker
into any computer using a Unix operating system and thereafter enable the
hacker to illegally capture logins and passwords used by legitimate
users of the computer.
Discovery of the Altered Unix Source Code
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7. For the past seven (7) months I have been one of the United States
Secret Service agents involved in a national investigation into attacks
on telephone computer switches by various computer "hackers" including
an organization referred to as the Legion of Doom (LOD).
8. My investigation to date has disclosed that hackers have stolen sensitive
proprietary information from various telecommunications organizations
and published this information in "hacker" publications such as "Phrack"
newsletter. On Janurary 18,1990 Craig Neidorf (hacker handle Knight
Lightning) the editor and co-publisher of "PHRACK" was caught in
possession of various stolen computer files including the source code
for UNIX SVR3.2 and the text file for the Bell South's enhanced 911 (E911)
system.
9. On January 18,1990 Reed Newlin, Southwestern Bell, and I conducted an
examination of the computer files of Craig Neidorf, a hacker known to us
as Knight Lightning,at the University of Missouri at Columbia in Columbia,
Missouri (referred to hereafter simply as Neidorf computer files).
Newlin's examination of the Neidorf computer files extended from the night
of January 18 into the early morning hours of January 19. Later on
January 19 Newlin advised me that his examination of the Neidorf computer
files had disclosed the existence of what he believed to be proprietary
AT&T UNIX SVR3.2 source code in among Neidorf's computer files. He further
advised me that the AT&T source code appeared to have been modified into
a hacker tutorial which would enable a computer hacker to illegally
obtain password and login information from computers running on a UNIX
operating system.
10. On January 29, 1990 I interviewed Craig Neidorf and he advised me that
Leonard Rose (hacker handle "Terminus") had provided him with the AT&T
UNIX SVR3.2 source code which had been taken by me from his computer
files on the computers at the University of Missouri. (Neidorf is soon to
be indicted in Chicago for violations of 18 USC 1030,1343, and 2314.
Neidorf's interview took place while he was aware of the potential
charges which might be brought against him.)
11. Neidorf's identification of Leonard Rose (Terminus) as his source for
the stolen UNIX source code is corroborated by the physical evidence.
That evidence also shows that Terminus knew the code was stolen. On
January 20, 21, and 31, 1990 I personally examined the 19 pages of AT&T
UNIX SVR3.2 found in the Neidorf computer files by Newlin. On pages one
and two of the AT&T document the author of the file identifies himself
by the hacker handle "Terminus". On the first page of the document
Terminus advised Neidorf that the source code came originally from AT&T
"so it's definitely not something you wish to get caught with".
Terminus also inserts the following warning into the text of the program
on the first page: "Warning: this is AT&T proprietary source code. Do
NOT get caught with it.." On page 26 of the program Terminus also states:
"Hacked by Terminus to enable stealing passwords.. This is obviously
not a tool for initial system penetration, but instead will allow you
to collect passwords and accounts once it's been installed. Ideal for
situations where you have a one-shot opportunity for super user
privileges.. This source code is not public domain..(so don't get
caught with it).
In addition to these warnings from Terminus the AT&T source code also
carries what appears to be the original warnings installed in the
program by AT&T on pages 2,5,6,7,26 and 28:
Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T
All rights reserved
THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T
The copyright notice above does not evidence and actual or intended
publication of the source code.
12. On January 26 and 30, 1990 copies of the UNIX SVR 3.2 source code
found in the Neidorf computer files and discussed above were sent to
UNIX experts with AT&T (Mr. Al Thompson) and Bellcore (Mr. David Bauer
and Mr. Hank Kleupfel) for their evaluation.
13. On January 30, 1990 Al Thompson of AT&T advised me that his initial
review of the document and the initial review of the document by AT&T's
software licensing group had disclosed the following:
a. The document was in fact a copy of the AT&T UNIX SVR3.2 source
code login program.
b. The program's value was approximately $75,000.00
c. Neither Leonard Rose nor Craig Neidorf were licensed to own or
possess the source code in question.
d. The source code provided to him had been made into a tutorial
for hackers which could be used to install "trap doors" into
a computer and it's operating system. These trap doors would
enable a hacker to illegally obtain the passwords and logins
of the legitimate users of a computer running on a UNIX
operating system.
Identification of Leonard Rose as Terminus
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14. The AT&T Unix SVR3.2 source code described in paragraphs 9 through
13 above reflected that a hacker named Terminus was the author of
the modifications.
15. On January 15 and 30, 1990 David Bauer of Bellcore advised me that
Terminus is the hacker handle for an individual named Leonard Rose
who resides in Maryland. Bauer advised me that in e-mail between
Terminus and a hacker known as the Prophet (Robert Riggs), on October
9, 1988 Terminus had identified himself as:
Len Rose
Len@Netsys.COM,postmaster@Netsys.COM
301-371-4497
Netsys,Inc. 7018 Willowtree Drive Middletown MD 21769
16. In addition, Bauer's examination disclosed that Terminus received
e-mail at the following addresses: "len@ames.arc.nasa.gov" or
"len@netsys.com". The address "len@ames.arc.nasa.gov" indicates
that the author has the account "len" on the system named "Ames"
in the domain "arc" that is owned and operated by the National
Air and Space Agency of the United States government.
17. My continuing review on January 25,1990 of the Neidorf computer files
disclosed that Rose was continuing to send e-mail to Neidorf and to
receive e-mail from Neidorf. On December 28,1989,Leonard Rose
(Terminus) sent an e-mail message to Neidorf in which Rose gives his
address as 7018 Willowtree Drive in Middletown, Maryland 21769 and
gives his e-mail address as follows:
"len@netsys.netsys.com"
18. On January 30, 1990 I was advised by individuals with the Computer
Emergency Reaction team (CERT) that the e-mail address
"len@netsys.netsys.com" is located at 7018 Willowtree Drive,Middletown,
Maryland 21769. CERT is an organization located at the Carnegie-Mellon
Institute and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
It records contain information about the location of many computers
in the United States.
19. There is additional evidence identifying Terminus as Leonard Rose.
On January 30, 1990 I received a May 24,1987 copy of "Phrack"
magazine from Hank Kluepfel of Bellcore wherein hacker Taran King
(Randy Tischler) interviewed and "profiled" Terminus (a/k/a Leonard
Rose). The personal background information in the article included
the following:
Handle: Terminus
Call him: Len
Past Handles: Terminal Technician
Handle Origin: Terminal Technician originated because of
Len's view of himself as a hacker. Terminus
was an offshoot of that and, although it
is an egotistical view, it means he has
reached the final point of being a
proficient hacker.
Date of birth: 1/10/59
Age at current date: 29
Height: 5'9"
Weight: About 190 lbs.
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: Brown
Computers: 6800 home brew system, Apple II,Altair
S100, 2 Apple II+s,IBM PC,IBM XT,IBM 3270,
IBM AT, and 2 Altos 986's
Sysop/Co-Sysop: MetroNet,MegaNet, and NetSys Unix
Terminus is further described as an electronic engineer and he designs
boards for different minicomputers like PDP-11s,Data Generals,Vaxes,
and Perkin-Elmer who also writes software and writes computer code in
machine language.
20. My January 25 review of the Neidorf computer files also disclosed a
January 9,1990 e-mail message from Rose to Neidorf at 12:20 am which
corroborated the fact that Rose had sent Neidorf the UNIX SVR3.2
source code on or around January 7,1990. In this message Rose tells
Neidorf that he (Rose) lost his copy of what he sent to Neidorf the
other night because his (Rose's) hard drive had crashed.
21. My January 25 review also disclosed a second e-mail message from Rose
to Neidorf on January 9,1990, at 3:05 pm . This message indicates that
Neidorf had sent a copy of the requested source code back to Rose as
requested (see paragraph 20 above). Rose's message began:
"RE: UNIX file" and stated that the copy of the stolen source code
received back from Neidorf had some type of "glitch".
22. These messages reflect that Rose still has at least one copy of the
UNIX SVR3.2 source code in his possession.
23. On January 29,1990 Craig Neidorf advised me that on or around January
9, 1990 he received a copy of the Unix SVR3.2 source code which was
telecommunicated to him via Bitnet from Leonard Rose in Maryland.
24. On January 30,1990, Hank Kluepfel of Bellcore advised me that based
upon his background experience and investigation in this case and
investigating approximately 50 other incidents this year involving
the unauthorized use of other computer systems,hackers that run
computer bulletin boards typically keep and use the following types
of hardware,software and documents to execute their fraud schemes and
operate their bulletin boards:
a. Hardware - a central processing unit,a monitor, a modem,a keyboard,
a printer, and storage devices (either floppy disks or auxiliary
disk units),telephone equipment (including automatic dialing
equipment,cables and connectors), tape drives and recording equipment.
b. Software - hard disks, and floppy disks containing computer programs,
including, but not limited to software data files, e-mail files,
UNIX software and other AT&T proprietary software.
c. Documents - computer related manuals, computer related textbooks,
looseleaf binders, telephone books,computer printouts,videotapes
and other documents used to access computers and record information
taken from the computers during the above referred to breakins.
25. Based upon the above information and my own observation, I believe
that at the residence known as 7018 Willow Tree Drive, Middletown,
Maryland there is computer hardware (including central processing
unit(s),monitors,memory devices,modem(s),programming equipment,
communication equipment,disks,prints and computer software (including
but not limited to memory disks,floppy disks,storage media) and
written material and documents relating to the use of the computer
system (including networking access files,documentation relating to the
attacking of computer and advertising the results of the computer
attack (including telephone numbers and location information.) This
affidavit is for the seizure of the above described computer and
computer data and for the authorization to read information stored
and contained on the above described computer and computer data
which are evidence of violations of 18 USC 2314 and 1030, as well as
evidence,instrumentalities or fruits of the fraud scheme being
conducted by the operator of the computer at that location.
Location to be Searched
26. On January 31, 1990 I was advised by S.A. John Lewis, USSS in
Baltimore that 7018 Willow Tree Drive in Middletown, Maryland
is a two-level split-foyer style house with an upper story
overhang on either side of a central indentation for the front door.
The front door is white. There is a driveway on the left side of the
house as you face the front. A mail box is situated on a post next
to the driveway and displays the number 7018.
27. Request is made herein to search and seize the above described
computer and computer data and to read the information contained
in and on the computer and computer data.
Special Agent TIMOTHY FOLEY
United States Secret Service
Sworn and Subscribed to before
me this 1st day of February, 1990
Clarence E. Goetz
United States Magistrate
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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 90 21:03 EDT
From: <DARKMAGE@PRECIPICE.UUNET.UU.NET>
Subject: What to Read When the SS is at the Door
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Mr. Mage is our resident cyberczar, and he passed along the following list
of his favorite cyber-related books and games for those wanting more info
on what it's all about (J&G).
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Cyberpunk Book List
"Remember, What was once science fiction usually ends up as science.."
Title Author
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Johnny Zed Betancourt, John Gregory
When Gravity Fails Effinger, George Alec
The Long Orbit Farren, Mick
The Company Man Faust, Clifford
A Death of Honor Faust, Clifford
Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean
Neuromancer Gibson, William
Mona Lisa Overdrive Gibson, William
Count Zero Gibson, William
Burning Chrome Gibson, William
Barking Dogs Green, Terrence M.
The Glass Hammer Jeter, K.W.
Farewell Horizontal Jeter, K.W.
Bad Voltage Littel, Jonathan
Armageddon Blues Moran, Daniel Keys
Emerald Eyes Moran, Daniel Keys
Yesterdays Pawn Quick, W.T.
Dreams of Flesh and Sand Quick, W.T.
Dreams of Gods and Men Quick, W.T.
Systems Quick, W.T.
Eclipse Penumbra Shirley, John
Eclipse Shirley, John
Little Heroes Spinrad, Norman
Other Americas Spinrad, Norman
Islands in the Net Spinrad, Norman
Mercedes Nights Weaver, Michael D.
Angel Station Williams, Walter Jon
Hardwired Williams, Walter Jon
Voice of the Whirlwind Williams, Walter Jon
These book are listed in alph order by author. Be careful since some
of these books are parts of a series and are not in order. ALSO, BEWARE
that these books deal with the genre of science fiction called Cyberpunk
and have been called questionable by the U.S. government.
Some Cyberpunk Roleplaying Games:
Cyberpunk by R. Talsorian Games Inc.
CyberSpace by I.C.E
ShadowRun by FASA Corp.
GURPS Cyberpunk by Steve Jackson Games
If you come across other Cyberpunk books or games not on this list,
please send a note to the CuD moderators and they will send it on to me.
Thanks.
Dark Mage
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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 90 00:48:21 EDT
From: Michael Rosen <CM193C@GWUVM.BITNET>
Subject: More on the NY Raids
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"NY State Police Round up Hackers"
Computerworld, August 20, 1990, pg. 99, (by Michael Alexander)
The New York State Police rounded up 13 alleged computer hackers last week
- including a 14-year-old boy who is accused of breaking into a U.S. Air
Force computer at the Pentagon - and charged them with computer tampering
and computer trespassing.
The Hackers are suspected of altering some files and deleting others in a
mainframe computer at City University in Bellevue, Wash., according to
Donald Delaney, senior investigator and supervisor of the major case squad
at the state police barracks in East Farmingdale, N.Y.
The hackers allegedly used an 800 number to break into the computer, making
it easy to identify them, Delaney said. More than 40 hackers reportedly
broke into the system, but only those who allegedly spent "an extended
period of time," in the computer were arrested.
Eight of those arrested were juveniles, Delaney said. Police plan to
arrest three more hackers this week and "probably more" later, he said.
Police seized computers, modems and other gear used in the break-ins from
the homes of the 13 hackers.
Pentagon break-in
One of the hackers, a 14-year-old boy who used the handle Zod, is also
accused of breaking into a Unix-based superminicomputer at the Pentagon.
He is alleged to be a member of a hacker group called MOD, an acronym for
Masters of Disasters and Mothers on Drugs, among other appellations.
"The information gleaned from the computer is of unclassified,
administrative nature," said Major Steve Headley of the Air Force Base in
Washington, D.C. "However, the office of special investigations of the Air
Force is concerned primarily that the act was criminal in itself
and...while it was innocuous, unclassified stuff, in aggregate, over a long
period of time, it could have meaning or be perhaps sensitive." How and
why the break-in occurred remains to be determined, Headley said.
The arrests came after a two-month investigation by a number of agencies,
including the New York State Police, the Air Force Office of Special
Investigations and the U.S. Secret Service.
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