On Sat, 9 May 1998, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 4:48 AM -0800 5/9/98, Spam the President wrote:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?98058.winavy.htm
U.S. Navy caught hacking into British marine charity Web site
By Kristi Essick InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 3:07 PM PT, May 8, 1998 ...
"I think whoever it was within the U.S. Navy facility would have better things to do rather than try and hack into our computers," said Chris Stroud, the organization's director of campaigns, in a statement. "If they were seeking reports on the Black Sea, we shall be freely publishing these in the near future anyway."
Consider the possibility that someone hacked into the Navy's computer and then used it as a base to hack the Marine Mammal Charity site.
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It wouldn't make any sense. Why would a hacker use a military site that is actively monitored to hack into a site with less security? And why the requests to get the document originating from the same source? Also, from what I have read, the DoD needs come first in everything, especially Defence Security related issues. No holds barred when they want something. This sounds exactly like the kind of information that they would want and consider essential, and could thus justify themselves to get it by any means available. Of course, if this was a hacker playing tricks to the US military, then I'm sure we can expect the military will publish this serious a security breach, in order to get more money to protect themselves against any Internet terrorist attacks in the future. But I bet there will be no public comments or explanation given. ----- pentagon-gw-e0.nci.net (198.253.200.2) donhq-gw.nci.net (198.253.203.11) donhqns1.hq.navy.mil (164.224.250.80) Trying 164.224.250.80... Connected to 164.224.250.80. Escape character is '^]'. W A R N I N G W A R N I N G W A R N I N G W A R N I N G USE OF THIS OR ANY OTHER DOD INTEREST COMPUTER SYSTEM CONSTITUTES A CONSENT TO MONITORING AT ALL TIMES This is a Department of Navy (DON) interest computer system. All DON interest computer systems and related equipment are intended for the communication, transmission, processing, and storage of official U.S. Government or other authorized information only. All DON interest computer systems are subject to monitoring at all times to ensure proper functioning of equipment and systems including security devices and systems, to prevent unauthorized use and violations of statutes and security regulations, to deter criminal activity, and for other similar purposes. Any user of a DON interest computer system should be aware that any information placed in the system is subject to monitoring and is not subject to any expectation of privacy. If monitoring of this or any other DON interest computer system reveals possible evidence of violation of criminal statutes, this evidence and any other related information, including identification information about the user, may be provided to law enforcement officials. If monitoring of this or any other DON interest computer system reveals violations of security regulations or unauthorized use, employees who violate security regulations or make unauthorized use of DON interest computer systems are subject to appropriate disciplinary action. USE OF THIS OR ANY OTHER DOD INTEREST COMPUTER SYSTEM CONSTITUTES A CONSENT TO MONITORING AT ALL TIMES W A R N I N G W A R N I N G W A R N I N G W A R N I N G Username: