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Computer underground Digest Sun Nov 17, 1996 Volume 8 : Issue 81
ISSN 1004-042X
Editor: Jim Thomas (cudigest@sun.soci.niu.edu)
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CONTENTS, #8.81 (Sun, Nov 17, 1996)
File 1--Review of Charles Platt's ANARCHY ONLINE
File 2--Some Excerpts from ANARCHY ONLINE
File 3--"NetLaw: Your Rights in the Online World" by Lance Rose
File 4-- Three New WEBMASTER/WEB-DEVELOPERS Books & stuff from O'Reilly
File 5--USENIX Annual Conference & USELINUX, January 6-10, 1997 (fwd)
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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 96 15:53 CST
From: Cu Digest <cudigest@sun.soci.niu.edu>
Subject: File 1--Review of Charles Platt's ANARCHY ONLINE
ANARCHY ONLINE. By Charles Platt. New York: Black Sheep Books.
368 pp. $24.95 (cloth).
Those wishing to understand the history, development, and
background of the "computer underground" generally refer to Cliff
Stoll's THE CUCKOO'S EGG, Katie Hafner and John Markoff's
CYBERPUNK, and Bruce Sterling's HACKER CRACKDOWN as among the
most useful. Now, Platt's ANARCHY ONLINE joins this select set.
Unlike the other volumes, which use the story of legal
entanglements to organize the information in chronological
sequence, Platt provides a smorgasbord of narratives covering
topics (piracy, net porn), politics (legislative battles), law
(suits and prosecutions), personalities (pick your favorite),
events, movements, and history.
Dividing his material into two sections, "Netcrime" and
"NetSpeech," Platt offers the reader nearly 100 narratives mixed
with rich description, occasional political commentary, and a
dose of social critique as way of describing salient issues in
Cyberspace.
His introductory chapter of "A typical hacker bust" describes in
a few pages the apprehension of the "dreaded Hollywood Hacker,"
whose home was raided in 1990 by law enforcement agents, guns
drawn with a television crew in tow, for the heinous crime of
"borrowing" an acquaintance's password and logging into a
computer account without authorization. Although the "Hollywood
Hacker's" offense was trivial, the incident illustrates the
abysmal lack of familiarity of computer technology and "hacking"
by law enforcement agents. It also provides Platt with an
effective entry point into the emergence of the "computer
underground."
With Platt as our tour guide, our journey through the underground
includes a panorama of "hacker BBSes, some we see from afar, some
from the inside. Occasionally, we stop long enough to meet former
"hackers" ("Dark Phiber," "Lord Digital," "Dead Lord," "Seth")
and "hacker"-chasing agents (Scott Charney); Security wizards
(Crypto-guru Phil Zimmermann, Dan Farmer, Robert Steele, the
original "agent Steele" of CIA, not "hacking," fame, as federal
agents learned to their confused embarrassment at a CFP
conference several years ago); and an array of Net personalities.
Platt provides information from Kevin Mitnick's some-time
partner "Roscoe," who suggests that much of the personal
information in CYBERPUNK was a spoof concocted by Mitnick and
"Roscoe." He examines how state laws have curtailed Net
liberties. He brings back names from the past, including Lorne
Shantz, Bob Emerson, and Jake Baker. Martin Rimm returns in a
scathing section that describes his "Netporn study" and Mike
Godwin's perseverance in destroying the credibility of both the
study and the author.
Particularly interesting are the dozens of photographs of
previously faceless Net personalities. Hackers, law enforcement
agents, and others ranging from Cyberporn protagonists Philip
Elmer-Dewitt/Martin Rimm and Godwin/Donna Hoffman; Anti-indecency
warrior Cyberangel Colin (Gabriel) Hatcher and free-speech
advocate Declan McCullagh; Joel Furr (sans t-shirt); and many,
many others.
Given Platt's literary and extensive writing background, it's not
surprising that ANARCHY ONLINE is exceptionally well written, and
while he on occasion seems tempted to move into political
polemics, he is generally successful in pulling back. Given the
magnitude of detail he presents, his accuracy is impressive,
perhaps because he took pains to contact many of his subjects
before publication to review his commentary.
Readers who prefer extended symphonies to short riffs and three
minute air-play routines might find the staccato style of brief
tastes and images frustrating (Platt, I should mention, never
mixes metaphors). But, the breadth and detail of this volume
makes it well worth reading, and it will prove an invaluable
reference source. And, it's currently reasonably priced.
The is one problem with obtaining the book. ANARCHY ONLINE's
hardcover edition is available by mail order only.
FOR *CREDIT CARD ORDERS ONLY* DIAL 1-800-879-4214.
Cover price is $24.95. BUT netizens get almost a 50 percent
discount! If you say "I heard about it through the Internet" you
pay only $12.95 (plus shipping).
Extracts from the book are freely available for inspection at
http://charlesplatt.com
The paperback will be out next March from HarperCollins and will
be distributed through regular bookstores. (But it will probably
cost more than $12.95).
It would make a great Christmas present or, better, a
supplemental text for the classroom.
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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 96 15:43 CST
From: Cu Digest <cudigest@sun.soci.niu.edu>
Subject: File 2--Some Excerpts from ANARCHY ONLINE
+-----------------------------------------------------+
Maverick Security Expert Advocates
Government Intervention to Secure the Internet
Robert Steele spent most of his working life in various
sections of the government bureaucracy until, at the age of
forty-two, he finally decided to go it alone. "I was deputy
director at the Marine Corps Intelligence Center," he says,
relaxing on the couch in the comfortable, traditionally
furnished living room of his home, which is nestled in wooded
country in Oakton, Virginia. With nicely bound books, a
couple of antique clocks, and elegant furniture, it's a
peaceful refuge within easy reach of his former employers at
the CIA, and no more than an hour's drive from the center of
Washington, D.C. But there is nothing peaceful or genteel
about Steele himself.
"I had spent eighteen years as a professional
intelligence officer," he says, "and discovered that a whole
lot of classified data wasn't really there. We just had a
whole bunch of facts about Soviet missile silos. Nothing on
the Third World, for instance. At the Marine Corps
Intelligence Center we were spending $3 million a year on a
system for accessing classified data from the CIA, NSA
[National Security Agency], and DIA [Defense Intelligence
Agency]--and I found that for $25,000 a year I could get
better data from open sources."
By "open sources" he means academic studies, published
papers, books, and databases accessible by private citizens
via the Internet, with no security clearance necessary.
"In 1992," Steele continues in an abrasive, rapid-fire
style, "I had made open sources a policy issue at
congressional level by working with Hill staffers who then
forced Bob Gates, director of Central Intelligence [DCI], to
set up an open-sources task force to review how he did things
and come up with recommendations for improving them."
Disgusted by the report that resulted, Stele quit and
decided to go it alone. He started sponsoring his own
conferences, the first of which was hugely successful.
Among the speakers were the chief of staff of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, a former science advisor to the
President, and the deputy director of the CIA. Attendees
included people from the intelligence community, John Perry
Barlow (cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation), and
an assortment of hackers. The event gave Steele instant
notoriety. "I became a public figure," he says.
Encouraged by his successes, he became more ambitious.
"My vision expanded," he says. "I wanted to help the American
economy make better use of open sources. I became concerned
with information security. Finally it seemed to me that the
only answer was to devise and implement a national
information strategy. I'm hoping that Gingrich or Gore is
going to use that phrase--"national information strategy"--in
a speech within the next two months, because I'm working with
various staffers on the Hill and in the administration whom I
really respect. My ideas are bipartisan."
Even though Steele became personally disillusioned with
his area of government, he still sees government policy as
the only way of taming anarchy online and safeguarding
systems from intruders.
"The role of government is to inform the citizenry about
security problems that exist," he says. "Then it can
establish standards to which the computer industry can rise."
But why is a government policy needed? Why can't this
problem be tackled by private industry?
"The communications and computing industries have been
criminally negligent, have not been held to any standards of
adequate engineering. If we don't have a national information
strategy that provides standards and due diligence law, we
will never be able to protect ourselves. The first
fundamental step is that our nation as a whole must be
committed to communications security."
I'm beginning to feel stuck in government-speak. What
exactly does he mean by due diligence?
"Due diligence is defined by regulation. Right now there
is no due diligence requirement for communications and
computing security. Stockholders are being screwed. They
don't realize it, but they're paying a price for corporate
management not protecting proprietary information properly.
There's no law, no regulations, and no public perception." He
pauses for emphasis. "This, I think, is the most fundamental
single weakness in this nation."
There's not a hint of doubt in Steele, and not a lot of
false modesty, either. In 1994 he wrote a bill that was
introduced in the Senate to establish his national
information strategy, which would be managed by a chief
information officer to be appointed by the Vice President.
Steele would have liked Paul Strassman to hold that position.
For himself he thought that a suitable title might be
director of national intelligence, with a subordinate
director of classified intelligence and a subordinate
coordinator for public information who would also be director
of a national information foundation that would encourage the
free flow and accessibility of data through the nation. The
whole package was supposed to cost half a billion dollars in
the first year, rising to two billion in the fourth year and
maintaining that level thereafter.
The bill, of course, was never signed into law, and
Steele admits that it had "zero impact." I suggest to him
that the cost of it alone made it impractical, but he waves
aside that objection. "If you're not talking in billions, no
one takes you seriously. When you have trillion-dollar
federal budgets, a program worth less than a billion is not
significant because it's not going to have an impact on the
nation as a whole.
"The typical computer network," he goes on, "isn't like a
house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze
tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit
matches."
At the same time, though, he still insists that hackers
are not a cause for concern. "It is clear that eighty percent
of bad things happening to computers are being done by
authorized users doing unauthorized things. This was the
conclusion reached by the Department of Defense during a one-
year study. Hackers are just our warning signal, the sneeze
that tells you you have a cold. Hackers are not a threat.
Ignorance is the greatest threat. The individual, the
organization, the nation that doesn't understand its
electronic vulnerabilities is essentially placing itself at
risk."
Once again he stresses the need for a national policy to
establish security standards. In the meantime, while we're
waiting for government to implement his vision, he's scathing
about institutions that don't take proper steps to protect
[Sorry, but to view the rest of this text
you'll have to read the book!]
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Pirate Boards: A Vanishing Species
Only a few pirates still deal in warez--just for the fun
of it. In the following case history, the pirate's real name
has been changed at his request.
"My handle was Axeman," says Mike Wollenski. "I used to
run a BBS called the GrindStone. I started it when I was
fifteen. It was a good ol' boys board, meaning that it only
served people I knew by reputation, or personally. I had one
phone lineand eighty megs of storage."
According to Mike, he never charged anyone for
membership or downloads. The operation was just a hobby.
"Making money off stolen software is a fantastic way to have
the feds come gunning after your ass," he says.
The board ran without trouble for three years, serving a
maximum of 150 users. In 1994 Mike went to college and set up
a new version of his BBS from there. Still there were no
problems, even though he was now dealing more heavily in
stolen software. "I got back into the pirate scene big time,"
he says. "I loved getting uploads, especially uploads that
were less than three days old. I used to have a contact at
IBM who would be able to get us the latest OS/2 beta source
codes for device drivers and utilities. He'd send it up and
some guys would download it and it would spread from there."
At Christmas break, Mike moved the BBS back home again
and took things one notch farther. "Right around this time,"
he recalls, "in my AC [area code], 914, an interest in
H/P/V/C/A started." H/P/V/C/A stands for Hacking, Phreaking,
Viruses, Cracking (or Carding, depending on who you ask), and
Anarchy. "Me, being the information hound that I was, decided
to join a mail network called MOBNet."
This was an informal store-and-forward message system.
Mike would accumulate a bunch of BBS messages or other data,
reduce their size with a file compression utility such as
PKZip, then pass them to another BBS. He received material on
the same basis.
"On a good day," says Mike, "I would get in a couple
hundred mes-sages, all dealing with hacking into systems, how
to crack password files on Unix hosts, how and where to find
credit card numbers, and, more importantly, how to protect
yourself from these things happening to you. So here I was, a
pirate board in 914--rather successful, as far as this area
code goes--getting pretty new files, and a ton of information
daily about the `darker sciences.'"
On Christmas Eve Mike received a warning. "I get a call
from a friend of mine, telling me, `Dude, shut it down! Kill
it! Nuke everything, and close everything up! Some kid just
got popped for credit card fraud, and he's telling the cops
that he got it from you.' Needless to say, I freaked. I
immediately took it down."
Foolishly, though, after a couple of days he put
everything back online. A couple more days after that, he was
raided.
"I'd been to the movies with my younger brother and a
friend of ours from school. I think it was at ten-thirty or
so. On our way back to my house, the car phone rings.
Understand, it was my parents' car; I had to raid the change
bin for the money to see the movie. My bro picks it up, says,
`Yeah? Uh-huh. Hmmm. Uh . . . okay. Bye.' He turns to me and
says, rather loudly, `You're going to jail! The cops came
over to the house with a search warrant and took your
computer and stuff. Mom and Dad are pissed!'"
When Mike got home he found that state police had taken
his 486SX/33 IBM-compatible computer, the monitor, keyboard,
modem, mouse, and all his software--"including the stuff I
had bought!" he says with a tone of wounded disbelief. "They
also took most of my parents' software. They tried to take my
mom's computer as well; I gather yelling ensued, and that
computer never left the house."
Mike was only a few days over eighteen. The police
promised that if he cooperated, he'd be charged as a
juvenile, there would be no felony charges, and his identity
would be kept secret. This sounded like a good deal, so he
supplied the password to unlock his system.
According to Mike, the cops then proceeded to betray
him. In February 1995 a local newspaper ran a two-part
article on hacking in which Mike was the only person
identified under his real name. A few months later, when Mike
came home from the spring college semester, he found himself
charged as an adult, with two class-E felonies carrying more
than ten years of potential jail time. He was horrified. "In
the end," he says, "my lawyer talked them down to a
violation--disorderly conduct--with a $250 fine and twenty-
five hours community service. But I had been so worried about
the case, I couldn't finish my semester at school. The cops
had lied to me outright in front of me and my lawyer, so I
had no idea what they were going to do next, and I basically
panicked."
He regrets now that he cooperated. "I should have told
them to go fuck themselves silly. But I gave them access to
my files, and because of that, a good friend of mine also got
busted. For all I know he went to jail; I don't really want
to know."
The main reason for police action against Mike's board
was not the software but the file containing credit card
numbers. "Most of them I got from a friend," he says, "but
some of them came from carbon copies in trash bins outside
the mall. It's easy to get them; you just go down there at
two A.M. when all the rent-a-cops are enjoying their
doughnuts."
He insists, however, he had no interest in the numbers.
"Once I had them--okay, great, now what? I never used any of
'em, because I have parents. They are better than any credit
card I know of. I don't have to pay interest, I don't have a
spending limit--hell, I don't even have to pay them back! So
did I sell card numbers? No. Did I give them to people? No.
Were they available if people left a message on my board?
Yes. Just like they are available anywhere else in life. What
it comes down to is that I was busted because I let people do
what they wished with my hard-drive space. I think that what
people did with my board was their own business. The police
came in and violated that right."
Mike's parents imposed some limits for a while: no modem
usage, and he had to ask permission to make phone calls.
Eventually he got his computer system back from the police--
everything except the hard drive--and computers are still his
main interest. He's hoping to make a career out of them as a
network technician.
Meanwhile, he says, pirate boards are scarcer than ever.
"After I was busted, all the local boards disappeared. As far
as I know, there's only one board left in 914. There are
still boards in other areas with a couple thousand people on
'em, but most are in the Midwest, where people are naturally
[Sorry, but to view the rest of this text
you'll have to read the book!]
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Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 14:00:37 EST
From: "Rob Slade, doting grandpa of Ryan & Trevor"
Subject: File 3--"NetLaw: Your Rights in the Online World" by Lance Rose
BKNETLAW.RVW 950406
"NetLaw: Your Rights in the Online World", Lance Rose, 1995, 0-07-882077-4,
U$19.95
%A Lance Rose
%C 2600 Tenth St., Berkeley, CA 94710
%D 1995
%G 0-07-882077-4
%I McGraw-Hill
%O U$19.95 510-548-2805 800-227-0900 lkissing@osborne.mhs.compuserve.com
%O pmon@osborne.mhs.compuserve.com
%P 372
%T "NetLaw: Your Rights in the Online World"
Very similar to his earlier "Syslaw" (cf. BKSYSLAW.RVW), this is
a general guide to various legal aspects of life online. The
major changes are the broadening of the scope from BBS level
systems to include online services and the Internet, and very
handy (and interesting) sidebars, which give a thumbnail sketch
version of the topic under discussion. These usually include a
reference to some specific case.
Chapters address the issues of censorship, contracts, commerce,
and copyright. Chapter four, which deals with the responsibility
of the system operator in light of online dangers, does touch on
the topic of malicious software. I was disappointed that this is
limited to a not terribly accurate defining of terms, and almost
no discussion of the admittedly confused legal situation.
Further chapters cover privacy, crime, search and seizure, and a
rather disappointing chapter on obscenity. Appendices include
some very useful sample contracts, and various US laws.
Given recent developments which have strongly indicated the
international nature of the net and international legal
ramifications, it is discouraging to see that Rose still presents
only a limited and US-centric view. However, the general
principles he describes are held in common law, and this book
should at least provide guidance for the broader online world.
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1995 BKNETLAW.RVW 950406
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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:14:58 -0800
From: Sara Winge <sara@ora.com>
Subject: File 4-- Three New WEBMASTER/WEB-DEVELOPERS Books & stuff from O'Reilly
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content and software and conducting market research on the online
services market.
In 1993, O'Reilly developed the Global Network Navigator (GNN), a
pioneering web-based publication which it sold to America Online in
June 1995. The company is a major developer of Win32 software for the
Internet, with software products including WebSite (Web server software
for Windows 95 and Windows NT), WebBoard (Web conferencing system), and
PolyForm (Web site form-building software). The Online Research Group,
O'Reilly's newest division, was created to survey and profile the
online services market.
# # #
World Wide Web Journal: Volume 1, Issue 4: Building an Industrial
Strength Web
A publication of O'Reilly & Associates and the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C)
Fall 1996
250 pages (est.), ISBN: 1-56592-211-5, $24.95
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From: Noah <noah@enabled.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 23:45:11 -0600 (CST)
Subject: File 5--USENIX Annual Conference & USELINUX, January 6-10, 1997 (fwd)
From -Noah
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date--Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:05:54 -0500 (EST)
From--The Professor <professr@netaxs.com>
January 6-10, 1997
USENIX 1997 TECHNICAL CONFERENCE
Anaheim, California, Marriott Hotel
USELINUX
Linux Applications Development & Deployment Conference
Co-located with USENIX 1997 Technical Conference
Co-sponsored by Linux International
Attendees may pay one fee and attend both conferences.
There are 20 day-long tutorials offered on January 6-7.
Topics include:
IPv6 Kerberos Approach to Network Security
Secure Java Programming Introduction to Java
Windows NT and Windows 95 UNIX Network Programming
How Networks Work Topics in System Administration
Web Security System and Network Performance Tuning
Inside the Linux 2.0 Kernel Java Applets and the AWT
UNIX Security Tools CGI and WWW Programming in Perl
Administering a Web Server Device Drivers under Linux
Solaris System Administration Beginning Perl Programming
Writing Secure Code Creating Effective User Interfaces
Java, the Web, Intranets, Security, Windows NT are among the topics of the
Technical Program which takes place January 8-10. It begins with a keynote
address by James Gosling, a creator of Java. 23 refereed papers present
up-to-the-minute research. A second track of invited talks cover cryptography,
Inktomi and AltaVista Search Engines, IPv6, benchmarks, and a new networked
operating system from Bell Labs that offers unprecedented portability for
applications and services.
Linux Torvalds speaking on the future of Linux, is one of the highlights at the
Linux Applications Development and Deployment Conference. USELINUX will offer
tutorials and technical presentations for developers. Concurrently, those
interested in the Linux marketplace may attend case studies and expert
presentations on how to create a Linux-based business.
An Exhibition on January 8-9 offers presentations of the latest hardware,
software, and networking products from 55 vendors.
ADMISSION TO THE EXHIBITION IS FREE. If you cannot make it to the conference
but would like to visit the exhibition, please contact Cynthia Deno at 408 335
9445 or cynthia@usenix.org.
For more program and registration information:
Access our Resource Center on the World Wide Web--http://www.usenix.org
Email to: info@usenix.org. In the body of your message state "send usenix97
conference"
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