| #### PHRACK PRESENTS ISSUE 16 #### | |
| ^*^*^*^Phrack World News, Part 4^*^*^*^ | |
| **** File 11 of 12 **** | |
| Shadow Hawk Busted Again | |
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| As many of you know, Shadow Hawk (a/k/a Shadow Hawk 1) had his home | |
| searched by agents of the FBI, Secret Service, and the Defense Criminal | |
| Investigative Services and had some of his property confiscated by them on | |
| September 4th. We're not going to reprint the Washington Post article as it's | |
| available through other sources. Instead, a summary: | |
| In early July, SH bought an AT&T 3B1 ("Unix PC") with a 67MB drive for | |
| a dirt-cheap $525. He got Sys V 3.5 for another $200 but was dissatisfied | |
| with much of the software they gave him (e.g. they gave him uucp version 1.1). | |
| When he was tagged by the feds, he had been downloading software (in | |
| the form of C sources) from various AT&T systems. According to reports, these | |
| included the Bell Labs installations at Naperville, Illinois and Murray Hill, | |
| New Jersey. Prosecutors said he also gained entry to (and downloaded software | |
| from) AT&T systems at a NATO installation in Burlington, North Carolina and | |
| Robins AFB in Georgia. AT&T claims he stole $1 million worth of software. | |
| Some of it was unreleased software taken from the Bell Labs systems that was | |
| given hypothetical price tags by Bell Labs spokespersons. Agents took his | |
| 3B1, two Atari STs he had in his room, and several diskettes. | |
| SH is 17 and apparently will be treated as a minor. At the time of | |
| this writing, he will either be subject to federal prosecution for 'computer | |
| theft' or will be subject to prosecution only by the State of Illinois. | |
| SH's lawyer, Karen Plant, was quoted as saying that SH "categorically | |
| denies doing anything that he should not have been doing" and that he "had | |
| absolutely no sinister motives in terms of stealing property." As we said, he | |
| was just collecting software for his new Unix PC. When I talked to Ms. Plant | |
| on September 25th, she told me that she had no idea if or when the U.S. | |
| Attorney would prosecute. Karen Plant can be reached at (312) 263-1355. Her | |
| address is 134 North LaSalle, #306, Chicago, Illinois. | |
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| On July 9th SH wrote: | |
| So you see, I'm screwed. Oh yeah, even worse! In my infinite (wisdom | |
| || stupidity, take your pick 8-)) I set up a local AT&T owned 7300 to call me | |
| up and send me their uucp files (my uucp works ok for receive) and guess what. | |
| I don't think I've to elaborate further on THAT one... (holding my breath, so | |
| to type) | |
| (_>Sh<_ | |
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