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From: barr@caen.engin.umich.edu (William Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Hacking into Citibank
Summary: Big Deal
Message-ID: <4666a321.1285f@maize.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 89 04:00:00 GMT
References: <20987@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <247@zircon.UUCP> <3465@scolex.sco.COM>
Reply-To: barr@caen.engin.umich.edu (William Barr)
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In article <3465@scolex.sco.COM> seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan) writes:
>In article <247@zircon.UUCP> meadley@cell.mot.COM (A. Meadley) writes:
>}"...The boy shared the information on how to tap into the bank's 
>}computers on more than 60 private computer 'bulletin boards' across
>}the nation"
>}
>}Does anyone know which BBS this information is stored on, or do you
>}have a copy of the information ?
>
>WHAT?!
>
>Look, if you're going to try to break the law, how about being more subtle
>about it, eh?  You never know *who* is reading the networks (and I know, for
>a fact, that people at CitiBank *do* read UseNET).
>

Big Deal.   If it was truly posted to 60 boards (or 6 for that matter) it is
more or less public knowledge among mostly inexperienced hackers.  That is to
say, anything that has been posted to 60 boards is old news.  The really good
hackers don't post that kind of stuff.  If they share it with anyone (and they
usually do) it will be with close friends.  When a hacker writes it up in a 
file and posts it (even on private hacker boards, generally), he's done having
his fun with the system.  Of course these are only my opinions and are
primarily besed on spending a couple years (back when I was 15) reading and
gaining memberships to private BBSs.  Of course, I never actually applied 
anything I learned there in an illegal manner.  It was purely curiosity.

I'm sure the holes have already been closed.  CitiBank should let us know
just how careless (if that is the case) they were or how good the hackers 
were by posting what happend in detail.


 Isn't CitiBank rumored to also be laundering money for lots of big coke
dealers as well as having handled the Contra arms/drug money?


>Sean Eric Fagan  | "Time has little to do with infinity and jelly donuts."
>seanf@sco.COM    |    -- Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck), _Magnum, P.I._
>(408) 458-1422   | Any opinions expressed are my own, not my employers'.

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