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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:11:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   At Large
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970908195425.11846A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>

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I read At Large (by David H. Freedman and Charles C. Mann) yesterday.
The story of "Phantomd" (and his IRC #hack friends Grok and Jsz),
who broke into an extraordinary number of computer systems around
1991-92.  

A good read; a sad story; a cautionary tale; a discouraging view of
computer security.  I had not known about Phantomd before; probably
many of you did.

And it mentions FreeBSD, once (p. 220).  Someone with the username
mycroft (he is not identified by real nameany) at MIT, one of
the places successfully and repeatedly intruded upon, writes the
sniffer that tracks what Phantomd is doing.  "Although not many of
his fellows in the Laboratory for Computer Science knew it, Mycroft
was on the board of Free-BSD, an international project that worked,
like the Free Software Foundation, to create a version of Unix
without code from AT&T."

	Annelise

	





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