Lprint #05 06 июня 1997

Hacker - Computer pirates (continued).

 Computer Hacker Pirates 03


                  Continued from in Lprint # 4

 False Swiatek showed up again in one of the next nights. He
penetration is no longer the phone line, like last time, and 
through a special data network firm TimNet. This is more

perfect communication system in which the information is 
compressed in the so- called packets and transmitted through a 
cable with a high throughput ability. Such data processing not 
only ensures places without interference, but also accelerates, 
and hence reduces the cost of transmission for the user.

 At this time, apparently, have been completed exploration, the 
unknown acted boldly, though not for a second vigilant.

Constantly hedging, trying not to betray its presence, he
hosted in the network for three hours, showing outstanding 
ability programmer, as well as excellent knowledge of the 
operating system UNICS running into the computer LBL. Important 
- he managed to cheat software package ATRUN - inspectors and 
watchmen of computers, which every five minutes checking all of 
the arrays of information and clears them of extraneous 
elements, which has a full set electronic keys. This is the 
holy of holies of the entire system, access to which have only 
a few trusted employees.  Pseudo-Swiatek has created this 
"Trojan horse" - a program for all respects similar to ATRUN, 
but work strictly in intervals between pyatimimnutnymi to 
bypass software-patrols this ATRUNa. With the help of a pirate 
calmly robbed kompyuyuter. And then ... Stoll did not believe 
their equipment. The offender is so insolent that no 
udovletvorivshis computer system LBL, immediately connected 
through it to Military Mil-Net network in Nebraska and seems to 
have carefully ransacked her TSEVM!

 Case of 75 cents a smell of a major espionage. But alas, until 
that unable to determine even the number of lines "TimNet" which

worked as a spy, not to mention the address of his terminal.
 All the best mastering the craft of computer counterspy,
former astronomer made a small program to help
him from night duty. As soon as the False Swiatek was part of a 
network LBL, all his actions were recorded automatically. K

Observations joined experts "TimNet". And finally tip
thread failed to grasp: the connection was going from Oakland / 
4 km from the San Francisco / terminal telephone company Bell. A

there reported that the trail leads along the lines of 
communication through the entire 5096 country in McLean, 
Virginia. Again Atlantic Coast!

 However, this is all that could help Stoll administration Bell 
by U.S. law, information about telephone subscribers

Company has the right to give only the police. But 
counterintelligence, came to war, nothing could stop. He

attentively listened to tape recordings of negotiations staff
lines, made during a joint hunt for Fake Swiatek and
caught the words: "Communication in Virginia by 422 ... or 448 
...? and connection to 1060 ". Stay on the phone to dial the 
code Virginia - 703, and then try the numbers 427-1060 and

448-1060. The second of them responded to the sound 
characteristic computer modem. This room belonged to the firm 
"Met" working at the Pentagon.

 Do not say anything - a godsend for the spy ... Here, for the 
deaf fence, armed patrols with dogs guarding top secret

production of military computers. Together with the 
administration of the firm Stoll first of all checked - whether 
the number "Met" is busy every time a pirate in a network LBL. 
And although it quickly confirmed, the move beyond failed. 
"Read address terminal is very difficult - explained specialists

information security. - In our network, computers soedeniny
one common cable. To determine the source of the call will
Manually decode the addresses of all without exception packets.
 But Stoll was able to use the maximum amount of information to 
facilitate problem. He drew attention to the huge delay in 
response when sharing data - more than three seconds. This 
meant that the pirate went to the terminal "Met" in line very 
long.  True, if you just multiply more than three seconds, the 
rate of light and split into two, would be, that the spy sits 
not only outside of America, but generally somewhere beyond the 
orbit of the moon - on the distance of about half a million 
kilometers. But the fact that long-distance transmission of 
information related to the main delay treatment. Most of the 
way messages travel in a batch form, and at each stage of 
re-coded, and for this estesvenno takes time. Means that would 
determine the true distance, it is necessary to know the total 
time of packaging to the entire route, that is, the number of 
suitable devices. Not too simple, but, even so is easier than 
decoding a row all the addresses.  It is clear that parallel to 
this work, Stoll single day never forgotten monitor the 
progress of "godson". But progress has been just brilliant 
because the False Swiatek also worked tirelessly. A few weeks 
later, he beat a path to objects such visits are would do 
credit to the mothers of the spy:     >> Military Base in 
Alabama, where he received information about     combat 
readiness of the nuclear long-range missiles;     >> 
Ultra-secure military network research, where he entered     
under the password "Cromwell" and code 1674 / year of the death 
of his son /     found in the file LBL-Net;

    >> Information Center CIA, which searched the four
    computer;
    >> Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, Massachusetts
        th Institute of Technology;

        >> Mil-Net network in Nebraska, where he stubbornly 
crept 

        the secrets of the firm MIS - developer / what irony! /
    protection of military communication lines;
    >> Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, projecting the 
classifying space shuttle ".  Not only that: visiting the U.S. 
Air Force bases in Germany, Okinawa and Hawaii, entering into 
data banks Pentagon, the Navy arsenal, Centres development of 
aircraft and missiles, as well as arms dealers hackers got a 
tremendous amount of information about weapons, especially 
nuclear ones. Between times he had visited and European Centre 
for Nuclear Research in Geneva / CERN /, as well as some of the 
largest firmproizvoditeley computer.  At the same time entering 
into the taste of the investigation and mustered unique 
experience, counterintelligence decided to personally 
experience the strength of protect sensitive information 
networks. From his apartment, through the ordinary personal 
computer, under the guise of code lab Berkeley, he almost got 
into the labor TSEVM troubled firms "Met." Dismantled its 
programs, Stoll knew that the spy left here the same "Trojan 
horse" that in his native LBL, and then in half a year come out 
to hunt for all United States, and the company also paid for 
his "heavy" work wholesale and retail.

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