Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Jolnet's Troubles Message-ID: <4341@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 25 Feb 90 05:08:23 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 32 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 127, Message 1 of 7 There were a number of concerns not addressed or even mentioned in the special issue on the seizure of Jolnet. How did the authorities learn of cracker/phreak messages in the files? Did they login as users and look around? Were there *really* clandestine messages there or is that just the official line? Did they just seize the machine assuming they could find something incriminating? As administrator for zygot, should I start reading my users' mail to make sure they aren't saying anything naughty? Should I snoop thorough all the files to make sure everyone is being good? I have no idea what gets posted directly to USENET, since I have better things to do than monitor the inews log. Could this be a problem? This whole affair is rather chilling. Bill Kuykendall is absolutely correct when he urges people to contact their legislators and get some of these issues resolved. I remember the bad old days that anyone who seemed to have technical knowledge about the telephone network was viewed with a great deal of suspicion. I would rather not see the day come that anyone with a networked computer is one step away from arrest. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o ! [Moderator's Note: More news has arrived here since the issue on Jolnet was released yesterday. It appears the 911 software problem was the tip of the iceberg. When the feds went to visit Andrews, all sorts of worms started coming out the can. Read the next message today..... PT]