History - The Saga of Mitnik. Continued. Read the beginning in issue 3.

 
          

 Continuation. Read the beginning in the 3rd issue.


   By October 1995, Mitnik had changed three prisons
- one is worse than the other, judging by its
letters.  In the first he was beaten and robbed
two cokamephukamu and barely avoided a collision
new things with others. When he wrote a complaint
bu that the vegetarian diet that he
demanded, reduced to peanut sandwiches
soybean oil, and that they refused to give him a drink
take medications against stress and stomach problems
pain, the authorities ordered a transfer
him to a higher security prison. In but-
in prison, the first thing he did was confiscate
books, underwear and toiletries
laziness.  He was again denied treatment
kapctbax, and after June 18 he was
hospitalized with a diagnosis of food spasms
water", his lawyer stated that "intentional
ignoring serious medical needs"
his ward is a violation of cons-
titular norms. However, before the federation
The official judge managed to give effect to this complaint,
Mitnik was transferred to the third in a row
prison  There the conditions turned out to be even worse.
Besides him, there were seven more prisoners in the cell.
valuable. There was no legal system in prison
library (what actuallyassumed
federal legislation).  In the cell
there was no radio or TV. To everyone
the prisoner was allowed to have simultaneous
but no more than two books. For eight people
there was only one pencil in the camera -
stub, which was taken after both
yes. Mitnik was given one sheet of paper
gi per day.

   Meanwhile, in the wild, Mitnik was persuaded
and this way and that. At a conference dedicated to
computer security problems, pro-
which ran on March 28, 1995 in Burlingame,
California, Kari Heckman compared the challenge,
which Mitnick threw to the security specialists
safety, with the challenge that came for
USA in 1958 Russian launch of Sputnik
(Mitnik - satellite: I’m asking myself -
current play on words).  By now
A huge amount is dedicated to Mitnik
publications, only since the beginning of this (1996)
3 books about Mitnik were released this year
(“Takedown” is a Shimomura co-production
and Markoff, based on which he is now filming
the film is only one of them), his “business” is
a subject of ongoing debate. (Links to
For electronic publications about Mitnik, see
Internet at: http: //takedown.
com/coverage. html.) It is called "computer
thorny terrorist", "the most dangerous par-
him who has ever sat down at the keyboard
tour", others see him as a hero and
role model, thirdbelieve that
He didn’t do anything special... He himself
Mitnik doesn't seem to really understand who he is
and what he really is. He just occupied
doing what he LOVED to do. And
this is what it led to... In a letter to Lit-
Tonally he asks if he thinks that
he should be sentenced to a long term.
Lytton couldn't find an answer.

   But others do not experience any vibrations.
Baniya. Prosecutor David Schindler, for example, in
interview with the Los Angeles Times stated that he
will do everything to ensure that Mitnik gets maximum
a short period of time for a hacker, longer than that
Poulsen (4 years and 3 months). He accused
Mitnik in 23 cases of fraud using
use of illegal access to computer
ter and in causing damage for the total amount
more than $80 million. Neither demanded for him,
respectively, from 8 to 10 years in prison
as much as is required for murder.
(According to Associated Press estimates, the total
the term for all charges would be 460
years in prison).  Thanks to the efforts of the lawyer,
22 charges have been dropped and only one remains,
for which Mitnik could have been convicted in total
only for 8 months (which means that he
would be released by Christmas 1995). Co.
time of writing this article (cepe-
date January 1996) I was unable to install
to see whether the trial has ended
government and by what date Mitnik was in
ultimately sentenced. Inevery time
tea, there is no news about his release noctyna-
lo.

                    Evgeniy GOPY
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   Information about Kevin Mitnick on the Internet
(selected pages):

 [1] The Kevin Mitnick/Tsutomu Shimomura
affair (List of resources)
   [2] Fighting Computer Crime (selection
articles)
   [3] Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura and
John Markoff
   [4] The Fugitive Game by Jonathan
Littman



   Postscript: The face and mask of Tsutomu Shimo-
Moores.

   Advertisement for Shimo's just-released book
Moore and Markoff on how they got together
efforts to catch Kevin Mitnick, reads:
          "HE COULD CRUSH THE WORLD.
 Only one person was capable of remaining
update it: SHIMOMURA."

   In this book ("Takedown: The Pursuit
and Capture of Kevin Mitnick") Shimomura
should be in the habit of belittling and
make fools of everyone he dealt with
business, and praises himself in every possible way. He
has the right to this: to the fearless hero,
defeated the computer dragon, weakness
are permissible. Howeverto the digital samurai
should, of course, be known to the average
an age-old Japanese proverb that one
and the same story can be told in different ways
mu.
   Tracking down "the most dangerous amepukahc-
who hacker" Kevin Mitnick, famous
cyber detective Tsutomu Shimomura himself threatened
unleash a crushing attack on the Inter-
no, using top-secret programs
frame guns developed by him to order
military.  This was stated by a former friend of Shimo-
Moore, a pioneer in the computer industry and
Electronic privacy advocate John Gil
mor.

























             Citoma Shimomura

   John Gilmore, one of the founders of Sun
Microsystems, owner of Sygnus and
board member of Electronic Frontier
Foundation, reported that Shimomura, working
melting into government-funded
San Diego Supercomputing Center
concluded a contract with the Air Force
lamy of the USA, according to which he had to
write a research paper about computer software
framework by which the military could
conduct espionage operations on the Internet.
   According to Gilmore, Shimomura dis-
fought with the Air Force when they demanded that
he provided them with the code for this
spy program, and not just theoretical
Czech development, as agreed in
contract  Shimomura stated that if the Air Force
he won't get paid, he will distribute the code of this
programs over the Internet. When implementing
thiscomputer hackers have received threats
I wish I could get my hands on a tool that allows
easily break computer protection -
networks around the world, which would lead to
losses amounting to billions of dollars.
   Gilmore stated this in a note, post-
Lanna in mid-January in founded by him
Internet "mailing list"
list) cypherpunks@toad. com. In the telephone
in a conversation with journalist Farhan Momon, he
said that this information was not received by him
mediocre from Shimomura, who reported
them when they were still friends.
   Tsutomu Shimomura, Japanese subject and
"computer security expert"
best known for playing the lead
role during the arrest of Kevin Mitnick,
famous hacker, unsuccessful for a long time
but wanted by the FBI. Currently
now (January 1996) he is on tour
around the USA, promoting a book about the capture of Mitnick,
co-written by him and a reporter
from the New York Times by John Markoff.
   Speaking recently in New York, Shimomura
reacted angrily to Gilmore's statement. "You
just look who the source is
this information!"  - he stated, hinting at
that Gilmore has personal motives, according to
which he is interested in denigrating the former
your friend.
   Julia Menapace, Gilmore's girlfriend on
for many years, left last year
to Shimomura. In "Takedown" Shimomura without any-
whom embarrassment describes how he seduced
Julia, while Gilmore was away, painting
going into details, for example, their joint
washing in the bath.  Naturally, in the end
Gilmore's note read: "Don't introduce
this Shimomura with his girlfriend."
   Gilmore, however, denies that the content
his message was due to personal
enmity.  He refers to the characteristic
which Shimomura gives him in his book
("principled fighter for electronic devices"
bathoctb") and explains his action as follows:
blowing: "We started a discussion about
Berkeley Packet Filter program. Someone
said that there is no need to make a big deal out of words
on, and I sent my note explaining-
I realized that BPF is truly dangerous
thing, and that it is enough to see what of
Tsutomu made it."
   Berkeley Packet Filter, or BPF, lies
at the heart of the spy program, developed by
Noah Shimomura. In "Takedown" he describes,
how modified the existing version of BPF,
that it became possible to run it on any
computer so that the owner of the computer does not
will be able to detect it.  Modified
the program will intercept incoming and
outgoing Internet messages and re-
send this information to the person who installed
program.   Clearly this is ideal
spy device, with the help of which
it is possible to receive both peaceful and
militaryinformation of strategic importance
nia.
   In his book, Shimomura admits that
worked on this program, intending
hand it over to some intelligence agency
service, but not the Air Force at all. "I developed
its initial version of the faster BPF,
hoping to receive a grant for additional
research ($500,000 per year) from
National Security Agency" -
he writes.
   However, his request for funding
further work was rejected. Together with
however, Shimomura denies that he ever
worked for the BBC, and avoids answering questions
growing up, was he going to make his
program on the Internet.
   Most observers believe
however, that the modified BPF code was
one of the things Kevin is looking for
Mitnik invaded Shimorov's computer.
If this is so, then it becomes clear why
Shimomura and the FBI became so eager
pursue Mitnick - it was about ctpate-
gical interests of the United States, and the game turned out to be
The military is involved.
   As for the FBI, before the incident with Shi-
Momura didn't consider him serious at all
a criminal.  This can be confirmed
serve the following fact: long before the "movement"
ga" Shimomura, a young hacker from Seattle Todd
Young tracked down Mitnick using
Cellscope is a device that allows you to detect
cellular frequencies. Without authority
on itarrest, Young sought help from
police and FBI and continued to hold Mitnick
under observation for two weeks. But
neither intelligence nor local police
took no action, and the prosecutor
refused to sign the arrest warrant. (This
history also destroys the myth of elusiveness
Mitnik; "a monster that poses a threat to society"
Wu and Cyberspace", it turned out to be found
not difficult.)
   Compare now the situation in Palaikha,
where Shimomura openly violated the law, using
using for eavesdropping is still the same
Cellscope, and the prosecutor issued a warrant for
an arrest that wasn't even filled out!
   Considering the above, we can assume
live that Mitnick's misadventures are explained
the fact that he, wittingly or unwittingly, invaded
too big a game involving military and
intelligence. The outcome of the game is still unclear.

                   Mirza Babaev
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