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From: jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: JSC phone ripoff followup article
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.171227.3428@craycos.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 17:12:27 GMT
References: <BcuVT2w163w@dogface>
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Organization: Cray Computer Corporation
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In article <BcuVT2w163w@dogface>  writes:
>
>               HOUSTON (AP) -- Computer hackers have pilfered $12
>          million in telephone charges from the Johnson Space Center
>          over the past two years in what at least one expert said was
>          the biggest such theft in the nation.
...
>               Black and Gail Thackeray, an assistant Arizona attorney
>          general and an expert in telecommunications, said such
>          penetrations typically cost from $100,000 a month for a small
>          company to $500,000 per month at a large firm.

... and since NASA is a "large firm", they must have lost $500,000/month
for the past two years, thus yielding $12 million.  Brilliant logic.

Does this Abernathy guy have any credibility left at all?