Part 9 (1/2)

INTERNET ties together tens of thousands of computers from the Government, private industry, universities and defense contrac- tors all over the country Chase said he learned how to access the unclassified computer network from passwords and keys dis- tributed on computer Bulletin Boards

Computer security experts worked for 3 days hours to first deter- mine the cause of the network slon and then to restore the network to normal operation It has been estie was caused by Mr Chase's Worm Mr Chase said the Worm was experimental, and was accidentally released into INTERNET when a piece of software he had written ized for any inconvenience he caused

The Attorney General of the State of Michigan is exaal aspects of the case and it is expected that Mr Chase will be tried within in a year Mr Chase was released on his own recognizance

This is Scott Mason wondering why the Pentagon doesn't shoot worms instead of boned on to the SDSU/BBS from his small Mission Beach apartment It was a local university Bulletin Board Service or BBS A BBS is like a library There are li- braries of softhich are free, and as a user you are recip- rocally expected to donate software into the Public Domain Con- ference Halls or Conversation Pits on the BBS are free-for-all discussions where people at their keyboards can all have a 'live'

conversation Anyone, using any coular phone lines No one cared or knew if you were skinny, fat, pimpled, blind, a double for Christy Brinkley or too chicken shi+t to talk to girls in person

Here, everyone was equal

Billings 234

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There was a brief pause

WELCOME TO THE SDSU/BBS STEVE BILLINGS, YOU ARE USER 109

Steve Chose (12) for SERVICES:

The ed to a list of further options Each option would perain access to other networks around the country Frole entry point with a small computer, anyone could 'dial up' as it's called, almost any of over 20,000,000 computers in the country tied into any of ten thousand different networks

SDSU/BBS WINDOW ON THE WORLD

NETWORK SERVICES MENU

Steve selected CALNET, a network at Cal Tech in Los Angeles

Many of the Universities have permanent connections between their cos014

PassWORD: xxxXKIRKxxxX

Again, there was a pause, this ti to a coeles There was another menu of options, and a list of other widely dispersed computer networks He requested the SUNYNET computer, the State University of New York Network From there, he asked the comput- er for a local phone line so he could dial into a very private, very secret corand total of 45 seconds to access NEMO in New York, all at the price of a local phone call

NEMO was a private BBS that was restricted to an elite few

Those who qualifications and reputations allowed the NEMO was born into this world by Steve and a few of his friends while they were in high school in Darien NEMO was a private club, for a few close friends who enjoyed their new hobby, coned for the professional hacker

1 PassWORDS 2 NEW NETS 3 DANGER ZONES 4 CRACKING TOOLS 5 WHO'S NEW?

6 PHREAKING 7 CRYPTO 8 WHO ELSE?

9 US NETWORKS 10 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS 11 FOR TRADE 12 FORTUNE 500 DOORKEYS

He selected (8), WHO ELSE? Steve wanted to see who else was 'on- line' now He wanted to talk about this Chase guy as giving hackers a bad name The computer responded:

CONVERSATION PIT: LA CREME, RAMBO DO YOU WANT TO JOIN IN?