Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!elbereth!rutgers!nike!cit-vax!amdahl!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: misc.headlines Subject: Re: "Pink Floyd" HACKER HITS UNIVERSITY COMPUTERS Message-ID: <736@pyramid.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 22:54:10 EDT Article-I.D.: pyramid.736 Posted: Sat Oct 11 22:54:10 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Oct-86 13:34:46 EDT References: <4108@ut-ngp.UUCP> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 16 >[from the Sunday paper - I hate it when they use 'hacker' instead of 'cracker'] > > 'Pink Floyd' attacks lack clear motive > >SAN FRANCISCO - A sophisticated computer hacker who calls himself "Pink Floyd" >has broken into dozens of university and business computers around the nation >and taunted the experts who have tried to thwart him. I've seen three different newspaper articles on the Bay Area UNIX cracker, all terribly innaccurate. For anyone who wants to know what really happened, check out mod.risks. Brian Reid wrote an extensive article on what happened. Although the news is now ancient (+ 6 weeks), you may still have some of the articles online; in addition, the moderator has made a copy of the breakin- related articles available via FTP. Contact RISKS-Request@CSL.SRI.COM.