At 01:31 PM 1/4/95 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:
From The Independent (London) Tuesday 3 January 1995 - Front Page
... The US Defence Information Systems Agency admitted in a private briefing, which has been confirmed, that the hackers had affected the Department's "military readiness."
"Admitted"? Probably "complained without substaniation" would be more accurate.
... It is understood that he invented a "sniffer" programme which searched across hundreds of computers attached to the Internet for passwords and user names. ...
If he was really behind the various password sniffers running on Netcom, etc, he has a lot of explaining to do.
... "They contained information about firing sites in North Korea and stuff like that. Field intelligence. He kept detailed logs of communication traffic. ... The Korean files were on the Girths Air Force Base computer system and therefore the could have been accessed. ...
Harumpf. Either the stuff wasn't classified, or else someone had a major security procedures breach and had classified material sitting on a computer with an uncrypted comm link. --Paul J. Ste. Marie pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com