------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 09:34:40 GMT-0600 From: "Jeff Miller" Subject: File 8--Re: "Hackers" Whack Harding (CuD 6.19) Re: Media "Hackers" Whack Harding's E-Mail, CuD #6.19: > LILLEHAMMER, Norway--In what was described as a "stupid, > foolish mistake," perhaps as many as 100 American > journalists peeked into figure skater Tonya Harding's > private electronic mailbox at the Olympics. ++++++++++++++++ This story was mentioned on alt.2600 (an Internet news group dedicated to the magazine "2600"). It annoys me now as much as when I first read it. Here is the follow up I posted: Well, I personally know many hackers who have entered systems with someone elses password, looked around, and logged out. Did nothing more. They all lost *all* their computer equipment, and many non-computer related items, not to mention the thousands of dollars in lawyer and court costs, just to get the felony and misd charges slapped on them lowered to a misd. These reporters have just admitted to committing the exact same crime. Will they have all their equipment confiscated? Will they be raided by the secret service with guns pointed at their mothers at 5am? I think not. What a bunch of shit. Even if Norway's computer crime laws do not apply here, and the Olympic committee does not wish to take action against these reporters, it really makes me sick that THESE hackers are given the image of some responsible adults just having fun at 2AM while eating pizza, while the other hackers you read about are juvenile delinquents bent on moving satellites out of orbit and abusing the E911 system. Just a hypothetical thought: What would have happened if a US hacker was the one who broke into Harding's account instead of one of these journalists? =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ + END THIS FILE + +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+===+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=