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J. Thomas
TeleComputist Newsletter
P.O. Box 2003
Florissant, Missouri 63032-2003

Also, Letters to the Editor and anything else dealing with TeleComputist can be
sent to the same address. TeleComputist can also be reached through Easylink
at 62195770, MCI Telex at 650-240-6356, CIS at 72767,3207 and PLINK at OLS 631.
Try MCI and Easylink first.

Not much else to say... so keep learning and try not to get into any trouble.

:Knight Lightning
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Computer Hackers Beware! - Senate Passes Computer Fraud And Abuse Act
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On October 2, 1986, the US Senate unanimously passed the Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act of 1986. The bill, S. 2281, imposes fines of up to $500,000 and/or
prison terms of up to 20 years for breaking into government or financial
institutions' computers.

The Federal Government alone operates more than 18,000 medium-scale and
large-scale computers at some 4,500 different sites. The Office of Technology
Assessment estimates the government's investment in computers over the past
four years at roughly $60 million. The General Services Administration
estimates that there will be 250,000 to 500,000 computers in use by the Federal
Government by 1990.

In 1984, legislators' attention to and concern about computer fraud was
heightened by a report by the American Bar Association task force on computer
crime. According to the report, based on a survey of 1,000 private
organizations and public agencies, forty-five percent of the 283 respondents
had been victimized by some form of computer crime, and more than 25 percent
had sustained financial losses totaling between an estimated $145 million and
$730 million during one twelve month period.

To address this problem, the Senate and House enacted, in 1984, the first
computer statute (18 U.S.C. 1030). Early this year both the House and Senate
introduced legislation to expand and amend this statute.

In the current bill, which is expected to be signed by President Reagan next
week, penalties will be imposed on anyone who knowingly or intentionally
accesses a computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access and:

(1) Obtains from government computers information relating to national defense
and foreign relations.

(2) Obtains information contained in financial records of financial
institutions.

(3) Affects the use of the government's operation of a computer in any
department or agency of the government that is exclusively for the use of
the U.S. Government.

(4) Obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing
obtained consists only of the use of the computer.

(5) Alters, damages, or destroys information in any federal interest computer,
or prevents authorized use of any such computer or information.

Under the bill, a person would be guilty of computer fraud if he or she causes
a loss of $1,000 or more during any one year period.

Depending on the offense, penalties include fines up to $100,000 for a
misdemeanor, $250,000 for a felony, $500,000 if the crime is committed by an
organization, and prison terms of up to 20 years.

The bill also prohibits traffic in passwords and other information from
computers used for interstate or foreign commerce. This part of the bill makes
it possible for Federal Prosecutors to crack down on pirate bulletin boards and
similar operations because the bill covers business computers, online networks,
and online news and information services, all of which are considered
interstate commerce.

Information provided by

P - 8 0 S y s t e m s
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GTE News December 20, 1986
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"GTE Develops High-Speed GaAs Multiplexer Combining Four Data Channels"

In an effort to achieve data communication rates of several gigabits per
second, GTE Labs (Waltham, MA) is combining the high-capacity of fiber optics
with the high speed of gallium arsenide circuits. The research arm of GTE has
designed a GaAs multiplexer that can combine four data channels, each with a
communication rate of 1 gigabit per second, into one channel. GTE has also
recently developed a technique called MOVPE (metal-organic vapor-phase
epitaxy) for efficiently growing thin-film GaAs crystals.

The new devices should play an important role in future communication systems,
which will involve high-capacity fiber-optic cables connecting houses and
offices through telephone switching centres. Data rates on these cables could
be as high as 20 gigabits per second. In addition to standard computer data,
numerous video channels could be supported, each with a data rate of almost
100 megabits per second. The GaAs multiplexers will probably be the only
devices fast enough to interface houses and offices through this fiber-optic
grid. In future supercomputers [misuse of the word -eds.] these multiplexers

J. Thomas

TeleComputist Newsletter

P.O. Box 2003

Florissant, Missouri 63032-2003

Also, Letters to the Editor and anything else dealing with TeleComputist can be

sent to the same address. TeleComputist can also be reached through Easylink

at 62195770, MCI Telex at 650-240-6356, CIS at 72767,3207 and PLINK at OLS 631.

Try MCI and Easylink first.

Not much else to say... so keep learning and try not to get into any trouble.

:Knight Lightning

_______________________________________________________________________________

Computer Hackers Beware! - Senate Passes Computer Fraud And Abuse Act

------------------------ ------------------------------------------

On October 2, 1986, the US Senate unanimously passed the Computer Fraud and

Abuse Act of 1986. The bill, S. 2281, imposes fines of up to $500,000 and/or

prison terms of up to 20 years for breaking into government or financial

institutions' computers.

The Federal Government alone operates more than 18,000 medium-scale and

large-scale computers at some 4,500 different sites. The Office of Technology

Assessment estimates the government's investment in computers over the past

four years at roughly $60 million. The General Services Administration

estimates that there will be 250,000 to 500,000 computers in use by the Federal

Government by 1990.

In 1984, legislators' attention to and concern about computer fraud was

heightened by a report by the American Bar Association task force on computer

crime. According to the report, based on a survey of 1,000 private

organizations and public agencies, forty-five percent of the 283 respondents

had been victimized by some form of computer crime, and more than 25 percent

had sustained financial losses totaling between an estimated $145 million and

$730 million during one twelve month period.

To address this problem, the Senate and House enacted, in 1984, the first

computer statute (18 U.S.C. 1030). Early this year both the House and Senate

introduced legislation to expand and amend this statute.

In the current bill, which is expected to be signed by President Reagan next

week, penalties will be imposed on anyone who knowingly or intentionally

accesses a computer without authorization, or exceeds authorized access and:

(1) Obtains from government computers information relating to national defense

and foreign relations.

(2) Obtains information contained in financial records of financial

institutions.

(3) Affects the use of the government's operation of a computer in any

department or agency of the government that is exclusively for the use of

the U.S. Government.

(4) Obtains anything of value, unless the object of the fraud and the thing

obtained consists only of the use of the computer.

(5) Alters, damages, or destroys information in any federal interest computer,

or prevents authorized use of any such computer or information.

Under the bill, a person would be guilty of computer fraud if he or she causes

a loss of $1,000 or more during any one year period.

Depending on the offense, penalties include fines up to $100,000 for a

misdemeanor, $250,000 for a felony, $500,000 if the crime is committed by an

organization, and prison terms of up to 20 years.

The bill also prohibits traffic in passwords and other information from

computers used for interstate or foreign commerce. This part of the bill makes

it possible for Federal Prosecutors to crack down on pirate bulletin boards and

similar operations because the bill covers business computers, online networks,

and online news and information services, all of which are considered

interstate commerce.

Information provided by

P - 8 0 S y s t e m s

_______________________________________________________________________________

GTE News December 20, 1986

--------

"GTE Develops High-Speed GaAs Multiplexer Combining Four Data Channels"

In an effort to achieve data communication rates of several gigabits per

second, GTE Labs (Waltham, MA) is combining the high-capacity of fiber optics

with the high speed of gallium arsenide circuits. The research arm of GTE has

designed a GaAs multiplexer that can combine four data channels, each with a

communication rate of 1 gigabit per second, into one channel. GTE has also

recently developed a technique called MOVPE (metal-organic vapor-phase

epitaxy) for efficiently growing thin-film GaAs crystals.

The new devices should play an important role in future communication systems,

which will involve high-capacity fiber-optic cables connecting houses and

offices through telephone switching centres. Data rates on these cables could

be as high as 20 gigabits per second. In addition to standard computer data,

numerous video channels could be supported, each with a data rate of almost

100 megabits per second. The GaAs multiplexers will probably be the only

devices fast enough to interface houses and offices through this fiber-optic

grid. In future supercomputers [misuse of the word -eds.] these multiplexers