Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 15:50:49 GMT From: doug@admiral.uucp (Doug Fields) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Fighting Phone Hackers in SoCal Message-ID: Organization: The Admiral's Unix System & The Grid BBS Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 469, Message 2 of 15 Lines: 45 In article Mark Seecof writes: > steal. And these are not kids who need to steal. They come from > white-collar families.'' Obviously; otherwise how could they afford the computer and modem? (I'm not saying that this is a necessity, but to have a high end '386 and a HS modem it can be a pretty safe assumption.) > with search warrants. If the hacker seemed relatively small, however, > Bigley took matters into her own hands, telephoned the suspect and > presented an ultimatum: Either pay up or face criminal charges. Not to protect the "cracker"'s actions, but this is technically extorsion, no? But five bucks says it brings in a LOT more revenue than just handing the name over to the police. > Teen-age hackers tend to be ``very intelligent and somewhat > introverted,'' says Garden Grove Police Detective Richard Harrison, a "crackers", please. I pride myself in being a legit "hacker". > educate themselves about their children's computers. ``If a kid is > spending a whole bunch of time on his computer and it's hooked up to a > modem, he's not just running his software. What is he doing on that >computer? Does he really need a modem?'' > [ed. note -- this officer may be an expert on fraud but is clearly > unqualified to make such sweeping assertions about what (young) people > do with computers. Playing rogue can eat up as much time as hacking > while the modem remains idle.] Wow; wouldn't my mother love this person. Not only am I on the computer for two hours or so a day (of course they must be the only two hours that my mother ever notices me), but I have SIX modems ... I must be a big time mafia boss in the computer business by that reasoning! Doug Fields -- 100 Midwood Road, Greenwich, CT 06830 --- (FAX) +1 203 661 2996 uucp: uunet!areyes!admiral!doug ------- Thank you areyes/mail and wizkid/news! Internet: fields-doug@cs.yale.edu --------------- (Voice@Home) +1 203 661 2967 BBS: (HST/V32) +1 203 661 1279; (MNP6) -2967; (PEP/V32) -2873; (V32/V42) -0450