[UFO Chicago] [greg@kroah.com: [CrackMonkey] [dave@farber.net : IP: U.S. DoD [seems to be djf] looking for pro-Sklyarov pages?]]

[Mills Reece-RMILLS1]

Here is a link to the book that Bruce Sterling wrote.  Pretty good read and
lets you know a thing or two 'bout stuff.  Craig Neidorf was the name of the
guy that went to trial.  A hacker in Atlanta? "Shadowhawk" copied the
document...  Read it at:
http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/texts/hacker_crackdown.txt

Raymond Reece Mills

Vice President of Outside Sales and Marketing

UFO Chicago



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Riffe [mailto:inkblot@geocities.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:38 AM
> To: Peter A. Peterson II
> Cc: Mills Reece-RMILLS1; Ufo (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [UFO Chicago] [greg@kroah.com: [CrackMonkey]
> [dave@farber.net: IP: U.S. DoD [seems to be djf] looking for
> pro-Sklyarov pages?]]
> 
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> On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Mills Reece-RMILLS1:
> > > WHOA! That's creepy dude.  I hate to see this kind of 
> stuff from our
> > > government.  Where will it end?  So Much Injustice comes from our
> > > politicians and GA's.  It is down right scarry.  Remember 
> Phiber Optik back
> > > in the 80's and the "Sensitive AT&T E911 document?  And 
> the kid that ran a
> > > BBS Magazine *Phrack* (I think?) getting railroaded?  Did 
> you post this to
> > > LUNI yet?  If it were me I believe that I would 
> disseminate this info as
> >
> > Well, the jury is still out on whether we're actually being scanned
> > for it or not. It may just be a bot on the loose. (I don't think so,
> > though.)
> >
> > What's the AT&T E911 document? And what about Phrack?
> 
> The E911 document was a document that described the 
> management structure
> of the 911 emergency phone system.  It was found by black hats on a
> BellSouth ESS5 switch by a cracker group in Atlanta (Legion 
> of Doom, in
> fact, last I knew, www.lod.com was still alive, having turned 
> themselves
> into consultants about sever or eight years ago), and was 
> spread around
> the underground for a few months (strictly as a trophy, it contained
> almost no technical information about the 911 system).  It 
> eventually made
> its way into the hands of Taran King of St. Louis, MO, by way 
> of Terminus
> ("king of NYNEX") and Phiber Optik.  He published it in 
> Phrack Magazine
> and got hauled into court.  Strictly speaking, it was a copyright
> violation and he was liable for that, but BellSouth claimed that the
> document was worth some outrageously huge amount of money.  Later
> investigation uncovered that they included the price of the 
> terminal and
> mainframe on which the document was composed... go figure.
> 
> Anyway, point is guys were strung up on the line for 
> questionable, but not
> dangerous, activities.
> 
> Bruce Sterling wrote a very good book about the whole episode 
> and other
> turn-of-the-decade antics called  _The_Hacker_Crackdown_.
> 
> >
> > I'll post to LUNI later, they should know too, I suppose.
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
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