Date: 28 Jul 92 16:54:14 EDT
From: Gordon Meyer <72307.1502@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: File 6--'Pirate' is PC?

"Texas and the Pirates"

 With all the publicity computer pirates have been getting lately -
 what with teenagers nonchalantly tapping into credit-card databases
 from their bedrooms and bands of foreign technophiles looking for
 vulnerable spots in computer networks that require high-level
 clearance to access - security firms are going all out to market
 their expertise to the nervous masses.

 { info about the June Computer Security Institute conference deleted.}

 The two-day conference includes seminars on topics such as "Securing
 the Simple Network Management Protocol" and "Protecting Against LAN
 Viruses."  To the astute security observer, however, the title of
 one session - "Hackers and Your Network" - would certainly cause
 a gasp.  As all politically correct technophiles know, hackers are
 legitimate computer enthusiasts; "computer pirates," by contrast,
 are those involved in technothievery.

 Excerpted from the June 1, 1992 issue of
 INFORMATION WEEK, who should know better.

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