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	Volume Seven, Issue Fifty

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	Aleph One
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	Personal
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	Handle: Aleph One
	Call him: Aleph
	Past handles: None
	Handle origin: Transfinite Math
	("Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker)
	Date of Birth: 1974
	Height: 6 feet
	Weight: No idea.
	Eye color: Olive
	Hair Color: Dark Brown
	Computers: Two
	Admin of: Underground.Org, and BugTraq
	Sites Frequented: None. I got better things to do with my time.
	URLs: http://www.disinfo.com/


	Favorite Things
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	Women: Intelligent, sexy with beautiful eyes and class.
	Cars: None. They are a pain. Ride a motorcycle.
	Foods: Exotic. Sushi (Anago), Arab, Chinese, Vietnamese,
	Thai, Indian, Ethiopian. Seafood. Meat. Anything on
	a grill. Anything flamb. Wine: Chianti.
	Music: Techno: Leftfield, Orbital, Underworld, Electric
	Skychurch, Prodigy, Juno Reacto,
	Chemical Brothers, Ambient, GOA Trace.
	Rock: Tool, Marylin Mason, Beck, Garbage, NIN.
	Classical: Bach, Baroque
	Soundtracks: Natural Born Killers, The Piano, Braveheart,
	RobRoy.
	Books: "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas R. Hofstadter
	"Infinity and the Mind" by Rudy Rucker
	"100 Years of Solitude" (in Spanish)
	by Gabriel Garcia Marques
	"Metamorphosis" by Kafka
	Turn Ons: Intelligence. Class. Pierced belly buttons.
	Tasteful tattoos. Long hair.
	Turn Offs: Ignorance. Attitude. Bad tattoos.



	Other passions, interests, loves:
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	Painting - Went to a painting/drawing class for 3 years. Did
	everything from pencil, pastels, up to watercolors. I stopped going
	when I started working with oils. I haven't painted in almost 7 years.
	Too bad, I enjoyed it.

	Math - For some reason I always liked math. I hated doing exercises,
	but always liked the theory. Guess that's why my grades were not
	better. I was intending to do a minor in math but I quit school
	before that ever happened...

	Reading - One of the things I value the most are my books. I really enjoy
	reading. Sadly, lately, all I read are technical books. I need to
	start reading other stuff again.

	AI - When I started fooling around with computers I wanted to go into AI,
	but the lack of material at my disposition at the time kept me from
	delving into it too much.

	Most memorable experiences:
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	Death - It marks your life for ever.

	Burning Man '95 - One of the most intense experiences of my life.
	Nothing can compare to the creation and expression of this community
	that grows and dies in one of the most inhospitable, yet more
	beautiful, places on earth.

	Some people to mention:
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	Annaliza (for all the rides from work, all the adventures, always being
	there, and the hot cocoa)

	Luis (for all the good times, the bad times, and begin one fucking
	crazy Spanish cosaco)

	Mr. Upsetter, Buckaroo Banzai, Dan, Rod & Rika, Sir Dystic, Freqout,
	White Knight & Loren (for being good friends)

	Intrepid Traveller (for giving me the number to Lunatic Labs)

	Noid, Pappy, Phax, Elvis Smurf, Ming of Mongo, TRW, Clockwork, and the
	rest of the old LA 2600 crew (for being themselves)

	Veggie (for being larger than life)

	Mycroft (who would have thought?)

	r00t (for being elite)

	A few things you would like to say:
	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	Knowledge come from within.

	The New Security Threat: Disinformation

	Statistics show that network break-ins are on the rise. Entities
	connecting to the Net expect to be broken into. They know it's only
	a matter of time before some random hacker targets their machines using
	the latest warez to bypass their firewall and break into their machine.
	They have seen it happen over and over. The CIA, DOJ, NASA, MGM/UA, etc.

	The modus operandi is always the same: Deface the web page, or trash the
	machines. For this occurrence they have prepared. Backups are in place, and
	ready to be used. Hacked web pages hardly stay up more than half and hour
	before they are taken down. What ever message the hackers wanted to deliver
	was probably only seen by a handful of people. There no longer is any
	incentive to hack a web site that no one will see.

	So what is next? Disinformation.

	The Internet as a medium facilitates the free flow of information. Single
	individuals can reach large, as yet before unreachable audiences. Information
	that before would have been relegated to some obscure corner, now travels at
	the speed of light and is disseminated all over the world. Everyday the Net
	is becoming a more important source of leads and information for the standard
	news media. It usually only takes a few hours before some information such
	as a new product, or some new bug, published on the Net appears on TV or
	some newspaper's web site. And as more companies publish information online
	our dependence on the Net as a source of information will only increase.

	But the medium does not attempt to validate or even authenticate this
	information in most cases. A anonymous tip on some newsgroup or web site
	can cause a company a lot of headaches. Even the worst are half-truths.
	Just look at the damage control that corporations such as Microsoft and Intel
	had to do in the past. But this is only the beginning.

	What if that motivated hacker decides that instead of replacing the
	company's web site with some obscene language and graphics that will be
	taken down almost immediately we will add a small officially worded press
	release to the web site. How long until someone notices? How long until
	they realize it's a fake. Maybe we should also email the press release to
	some media contacts. What are the chances that it will be catch before it
	makes it into the news? Or that it will catch before it's discussed on some
	newsgroup with a large audience?

	The amount of damage control a well placed piece of information coming
	from a seemingly reputable source is incredible. This, I believe, is where
	future attacks lay.

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