Lprint #09 05 июля 1997

computer pirates - Mitnick: the crime or the victim (continued).

                     Computer pirates

                   End, beginning at Lprint # 08

        Mitnick: perpetrator or victim?

 In September 1992 the FBI received a warrant to search an 
apartment in Mitnick Calabasas, California. He was suspected of

unauthorized access to computers in California
Department of Motor Vehicles, which accused him of
Damage to the $ 1 million., he did it very easily by giving
themselves as police, and got their hands on a bunch of secret
information. Authorities also believed that he entered into the 
computer of the Army and febeerovskoe dossier. But most of them

interested in who is wiretapping
employees of the department of security in "Pasific Bell". 
Mitnick questions are not liked and he ran away. In November, 
Mitnick was declared a federal wanted list. But the FBI to find 
him not succeeded, as if he disappeared for two slishnim year. 
Only in mid-1994 all over again reminded of its existence,

where Motorola has reported that someone had copied from their
computer software that allows you to control
cellular communication. Dan Farmer, creator of the famous 
program SATAN, ischushey holes in computer systems, said that 
someone stole earlier version of the program. The technique of 
these attacks was typical for Mitnick's behavior. The 
authorities had nearly caught up with Mitnick in October, when 
out of McCaw Cellular Communication stated that that someone 
stole the electronic serial number of cellular phones this 
company. When police raided the apartment in Mitnick Seattle, 
she found several cell phones, textbooks set out the procedures 
duplication rooms and a scanner, using Mitnick is watching the 
police operation to capture him. AND Here's the climax. 
December 25, 1994, in Christmas night, Mitnick has intruded on 
your home computer Tsutomu Shimomura - the leading American 
expert on computer safety, well-known developer of systems to 
prevent intrusion into computer systems. Mitnick copied hundreds

secret files. December 27 Mitnick made his second hit,
sending a voice mail: "You - asshole (Damn you). My technique -
the best ... Do not you know who I am ... Me and my friends ...
We will kill you. "Obidchevy samurai has vowed to take revenge 
on who gave him a personal affront, and questioned him

reputation as a specialist. To this end, he reconstructed the 
full picture of the incident. It turns out that the attack was 
carried out blindly, known that when the system receives a 
packet, it sends a computer sending a message confirming 
receipt. But as Mitnick used the "user-friendly computer"

Lajolo of universities in Chicago, then, not being able to see
these messages, Mitnick, the menie not been able to unravel the 
numbers sequences and thereby assign the appropriate

rates further send the packet. Thereafter, on January 25,
System Operator, The Well drew attention to the unusually
large amount of data on an account that was usually empty.
It was found files containing passwords, codes of many
companies, including more than 20 thousand. credit card numbers,
stolen from NetCom Inc. Shimimura set at The Well
clock monitoring, allowing pinpoint any
unusual activity. With a team of assistants from the FBI and
National Security Agency, he patiently tracked
a hacker and a route that took his computer
message. Tracking messages and intensity of traffic in different
places, Shimomura concluded that the attacker is located 
somewhere in area of ​​the airport near the city Durheym Raleyh 
in North Carolina. Federal agents intercepted telephone calls 
for Shimomura to Raylehe, but it turned out that line again and 
again closes itself themselves, as if having no beginning. 
Nevertheless, the search area narrowed down to two-kilometer 
zone. Group controlled the streets city, driving around in cars 
equipped with a device for intercept frequencies of cellular 
phones. Mitnick still detected. Late in the evening of 14 
February, Valentine's Day, a federal judge Wallace Dixon signed 
a search warrant for apartment 202 in the Player Club, which 
Mitnick was shooting in early February, using the name Glenn 
Thomas Case. February 15, at 1.30 nights when Shimomura 
determined that Mitnick was released on bond, the agents 
knocked on the door. A few minutes later Mitnick opened the 
door and was arrested. Information about the future of 
Mitnick's very little quadrupeds only it by October 1995 was 
replaced by three prisons - one of the other worse, Judging by 
his letters Jonathon Littmanu (journalist keep in touch with 
Mitnick). We also know that the prosecutor David Schindler in 
an interview with Los Angeles Times said that he will do 
everything to Mitnick received the maximum term for a hacker, 
greater than that of Poulsen (4 years and 3 months). He accused 
Mitnick in 23 cases of fraud using unauthorized access

to the computer and the damage to more than $ 80 million, and
demanded for him 8-10 years in prison, life, relying for
murder. According to estimates Associated Press, the total 
duration of all charges amounted to 460 years in prison. Thanks 
to the efforts Mitnick's attorney, 22 charges have fallen, but 
remains one of the that Mitnick could be sentenced to 8 months. 
While writing article, I learned that Mitnick has pleaded 
guilty and agreed to cooperate with the FBI.

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