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From: braum@Sol33.essex.ac.uk (Branscombe M P C)
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Subject: Re: Feedback on Computer Crime
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for hacking in the modern sense - ie breaking into systems and so on - good recent books are
Data Theft by Hugo Cornwall, author of The Hackers Handbook
Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll - legion of Doom meets DARPAnet dtuff
Beating the System/Inside the system or some such - author is (Ithink) something Khan

there's some discussion on the elpf mailing list on this - contact elpf-request @cstr.ed.uk.ac

My personal opinion - as a programmer (Prolog etc) and a journalist - is that it divides into straight crime - ripping off computer time/data - power play - look what I can do - and hmmm, what's in here - hello mr Sysop, I found a security loophole by doing x,y,z

recent anecdotes - the hacker at one of the London colleges (?Royal Mary &Westfield?) who erased various file, including data belonging to RNIB

Mary Branscombe