Part 10 (1/2)

OK, I'll be supersleuth Any word on CHAOS? Legion of Doom, The Crusaders?

IT'S ONE BIG DEAL IN THE E-MAIL: NEW CHAOS VIRUSES, EVERY dick AND JANE IS WRITING THEIR OWN VIRUSES COMPUTING WITH AIDS

Funny Why don't you put a rubber on your big 640K RAM? Or your mouse?

GOT SOMETHING AGAINST SAFE COMPUTING? IF HALF OF WHAT THEY SAY IS TRUE, WE'RE ALL IN TROUBLE TAKE A LOOK AT THE PUBLIC BBS'S

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Will do Any word on the new Central Census Data Base? Every- thing about every American stored in one co Sounds like the kind of library that would do the bad guys a lot of good

CAN'T FIND A DOOR FROM THE INTERNET GATE THE JUSTICE LINK WAS STILL GOOD YESTERDAY AND THE FBI STILL HASN'T CHANGED A PassWORD, SO THAT SHOULD BE AN EASY OPEN ONCE WE FIND THE FRONT DOOR

GIMME A COUPLE OF DAYS AND WE SHOULD KNOW DAN QUAYLES' JOCK SIZE

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Zero! Ha! Keep es of names, phone numbers and passwords from NEMO's data base into his computer 3000 miles across the country These were the round world of hackerdom They include all of the information needed to enter and play havoc inside of hundreds of secret and private computers

National Institute of Health 301-555-6761 USER: Fillstein PassWORD: Daddy1 USER: Miller9 PassWORD: Secret VMS 101 SUPERUSER: B645_dickY

VTEK NAS, Pensacola, Fla 904-555-2113 USER: Major101 PassWORD: Secret USER: General22 PassWORD: Secret1 USER: Forestall PassWORD: PDQS

IBM, Armonk, Advanced Research 914-555-0965 USER: Port1 PassWORD: Scientist USER: Port2 PassWORD: Scientist USER: Port3 PassWORD: Scientist

There were seventeen pages of updated and illegal access codes to computer systems across the country Another reason NEMO was so secret Didn't want just anybody cliround Can't trust everyone to live by the Code

Steve finished downloading the files from NEMO's distant data base and proceeded to print the business and government never wizened up Predictable passwords, like 'secret' were about as kinder- garten as you could get And everyone wonders why folks like us parade around their computers He had in his hand a list of over 250 updated and verified private, government and educational institutions who had left the keys to the front doors of their computers wide open And those were just the ones that NEMO knew about today

There is no accurate way to deterroups of hackers like NEMO existed But, even if only 1/100 of 1 of computer users classified the into co Busi- ness cause for concern Yet, no one did anything serious to lock the doors

Steve spent the next several hours walking right into coh the Bank of California in San Francisco, (Steve's first long distance call) he could reach the coh the new loan files, saw that various developers had defaulted on their loans and were in serious trouble Rates were going to start rising Good enough for a warm up

Steve still wanted back into the NASA launch cooing back twenty years, and he had had a taste of it, once Then, one day, soot smart and properly locked the front door He and NEMO were ever on the search for a key back into NASA's coood bet to get into NASA

That only h the SDSU/BBS to Cal Tech then into Livero, to LA, to San Francisco for a mere 25 cents

Livermore researchers kept the front doors of their coraduate stu- dents, preferred a free exchange of information between all scientists, so their computer security was extraordinarily lax

For a weapons research laboratory, funded by the Departruous situation

Much of the information in the Livermore computers was considered sensitive but unclassified, whatever that ineeringthinkers fro areas in science today put down their thoughts for the everyone to read The Livermore scientists believed in freedoot in

To the obvious consternation and disency