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From: mnemonic@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Mike Godwin)
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Subject: Re: Professional Crackers (was Re: How effective can the SS hope to be?)
Keywords: anarchy, drugs, satan, communism, assassination
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Date: 17 Sep 90 14:13:28 GMT
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In article <1990Sep17.032934.15238@cs.rochester.edu> yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:
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>I'm curious whether there is any evidence that these professional
>intercorporate crackers even exist.  Unfortunately, this is one of
>these areas (like political assassination) where if it is done right,
>there won't be any evidence.

I was at a bookstore on Saturday that had a $55 book called 
COMPUTER CRIME (it may be a textbook). In looking through the book,
which is aimed at system administrators, MIS guys, and the heads
of small businesses, I noticed no references at all to the kinds of
young explorers we often "hackers" or "crackers." Instead, the
the book seemed based on the a priori proposition that ALL of the
computer crime that sysadmins would be dealing with would be of
the intercorporate or disgruntled employee sort. The book's
copyright date was 1989.


--Mike




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