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Cheshire agrees. "A lot of companies have no idea what these kids can do to
them," he says. "If they would make access even a little difficult the kids
will go on to some other system." As for what else can be done, he notes that
at MIT the first thing computer students are taught is how to crash the
system. Consequently, nobody bothers to do it.

But the thing that annoys old-timer Cheshire (and Maxfield as well) is that
the whole hacker-intruder-vandal-thief phenomenon goes against the ideology of
the original hackers, who wanted to explore systems, not vandalize them.
Cheshire defines the original "hacker ethic" as the belief that information is
a value-free resource that should be shared. In practice, it means users
should add items to files, not destroy them, or add features to programs,
rather than pirate them.

"These kids want to make a name for themselves, and they think that they need
to do something dirty to do that. But they do it just as well by doing
something clever, such as leaving a software bug report on a system," he
notes.

Meanwhile, Maxfield says we are probably stuck with the problem at least until
the phone systems converts to digital technology, which should strip hackers
of anonymity by making their calls easy to trace.

Until someone figures out how to hack digital phone networks, of course. -TCM

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Computer Bulletin Boards January 8, 1986
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By The KTVI Channel 2 News Staff in St. Louis

Please keep in mind that Karen and Russ are anchor persons at KTVI.
All comments in []s are by me.-KL
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Karen: If Santa Claus brought you a computer for Christmas, beware of seeing
a few things you may not have bargained for. Computer bulletin boards
have spread by the thousands over the past few years and now some
people are concerned that the electronic messages may have gotten a
bit out of hand.

Russ: In its simplest definition, a computer bulletin board is a program or
message that can be accessed by other computers via telephone lines.
Anyone who has a home computer and a modem can receive and transmit to
computer bulletin boards. There are thousands of them nationwide, but
some are causing quite a stink [What a profound statement Russ].

[Flash to a picture of a geeky looking teenager]

Meet Jason Rebbe, he is a 16 year old computer whiz who a few months
ago accidentally tapped into a bulletin board called Dr. Doom's Castle.
[Sorry to break in here Russ, but why is this guy a computer whiz?
Just because he has a computer? Hey Russ, look a little closer, isn't
Jason sitting in front of a Commodore-64? I thought so. Oh yeah one
other thing, this BBS Dr. Doom's Castle has no known relation to Dr.
Doom (512) or Danger Zone Private.] Dr. Doom gives instructions on how
to build bombs and guns [Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!]. Jason
found the recipe for smoke bombs and tried to make one in his kitchen,
it didn't work. [Ba ha ha].

Jason: I heard an explosion in the basement first and that's when I knew
something was wrong. I thought it would be really neat to just set it
off someday when there was a lot of people around, just as a joke or a
prank. [Yeah, that would be K-Rad d00d!]. I didn't expect it to blow
up my house.

Russ: Jason wasn't hurt, but it cost about 2 grand [that's $2,000 to you and
me] to repair the kitchen. Jason's dad didn't take it well.

Bob Holloway: Mad wasn't the word for it. I, I was, I was past mad.

Russ: Mr. Holloway called Southwestern Bell and AT&T to see what could be
done about bulletin boards like Dr. Doom's Castle. The answer was
nothing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms said the same
thing.

Daniel Hoggart (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms): There is no
violation in publishing the information. The violation only
occurs when someone actually follows through on the
instructions and actually constructs a bomb.

Russ: Another bulletin board that is becoming more and more prevalent these
days is the Aryian Nation. This one [bulletin board] in Chicago says,
"If you are an anti-Communist you have made the right connection...on
the other hand, if you are consumed with such myths as
Judeo-Christianity, you most definitely dialed the wrong number."

Cheshire agrees. "A lot of companies have no idea what these kids can do to

them," he says. "If they would make access even a little difficult the kids

will go on to some other system." As for what else can be done, he notes that

at MIT the first thing computer students are taught is how to crash the

system. Consequently, nobody bothers to do it.

But the thing that annoys old-timer Cheshire (and Maxfield as well) is that

the whole hacker-intruder-vandal-thief phenomenon goes against the ideology of

the original hackers, who wanted to explore systems, not vandalize them.

Cheshire defines the original "hacker ethic" as the belief that information is

a value-free resource that should be shared. In practice, it means users

should add items to files, not destroy them, or add features to programs,

rather than pirate them.

"These kids want to make a name for themselves, and they think that they need

to do something dirty to do that. But they do it just as well by doing

something clever, such as leaving a software bug report on a system," he

notes.

Meanwhile, Maxfield says we are probably stuck with the problem at least until

the phone systems converts to digital technology, which should strip hackers

of anonymity by making their calls easy to trace.

Until someone figures out how to hack digital phone networks, of course. -TCM

Typed for PWN by Druidic Death

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Computer Bulletin Boards January 8, 1986

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

By The KTVI Channel 2 News Staff in St. Louis

Please keep in mind that Karen and Russ are anchor persons at KTVI.

All comments in []s are by me.-KL

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

Karen: If Santa Claus brought you a computer for Christmas, beware of seeing

a few things you may not have bargained for. Computer bulletin boards

have spread by the thousands over the past few years and now some

people are concerned that the electronic messages may have gotten a

bit out of hand.

Russ: In its simplest definition, a computer bulletin board is a program or

message that can be accessed by other computers via telephone lines.

Anyone who has a home computer and a modem can receive and transmit to

computer bulletin boards. There are thousands of them nationwide, but

some are causing quite a stink [What a profound statement Russ].

[Flash to a picture of a geeky looking teenager]

Meet Jason Rebbe, he is a 16 year old computer whiz who a few months

ago accidentally tapped into a bulletin board called Dr. Doom's Castle.

[Sorry to break in here Russ, but why is this guy a computer whiz?

Just because he has a computer? Hey Russ, look a little closer, isn't

Jason sitting in front of a Commodore-64? I thought so. Oh yeah one

other thing, this BBS Dr. Doom's Castle has no known relation to Dr.

Doom (512) or Danger Zone Private.] Dr. Doom gives instructions on how

to build bombs and guns [Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!]. Jason

found the recipe for smoke bombs and tried to make one in his kitchen,

it didn't work. [Ba ha ha].

Jason: I heard an explosion in the basement first and that's when I knew

something was wrong. I thought it would be really neat to just set it

off someday when there was a lot of people around, just as a joke or a

prank. [Yeah, that would be K-Rad d00d!]. I didn't expect it to blow

up my house.

Russ: Jason wasn't hurt, but it cost about 2 grand [that's $2,000 to you and

me] to repair the kitchen. Jason's dad didn't take it well.

Bob Holloway: Mad wasn't the word for it. I, I was, I was past mad.

Russ: Mr. Holloway called Southwestern Bell and AT&T to see what could be

done about bulletin boards like Dr. Doom's Castle. The answer was

nothing. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms said the same

thing.

Daniel Hoggart (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms): There is no

violation in publishing the information. The violation only

occurs when someone actually follows through on the

instructions and actually constructs a bomb.

Russ: Another bulletin board that is becoming more and more prevalent these

days is the Aryian Nation. This one [bulletin board] in Chicago says,

"If you are an anti-Communist you have made the right connection...on

the other hand, if you are consumed with such myths as

Judeo-Christianity, you most definitely dialed the wrong number."