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==Phrack Inc.==
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Volume Three, Issue Thirty-Three, File 11 of 13
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PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN
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PWN PWN
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PWN Phrack World News PWN
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PWN PWN
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PWN Issue XXXIII / Part One PWN
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PWN PWN
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PWN Compiled by Crimson Death PWN
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PWN PWN
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PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN PWN
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Sir Hackalot Raided By Georgia State Police
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"They were pretty pissed because they didn't find anything on me."
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Those were Sir Hackalot's remarks to Crimson Death shortly after his run
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in with the authorities. Sir Hackalot was raided by Georgia State Police in
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connection with Computer Fraud. The odd thing about it is that Sir Hackalot
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has been inactive for over a year and no real evidence was shown against him.
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They just came in and took his equipment. Although Sir Hackalot was not not
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arrested, he was questioned about three other locals bbs users who later found
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themselves receiving a visit the same day. Sir Hackalot is currently waiting
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for his equipment to be returned.
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Could this recent raid have anything to do with the infamous seizure of
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Jolnet Public Access Unix from Lockport, Illinois in connection with the Phrack
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E911 case? Sir Hackalot was a user on the system and in the mindset of today's
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law enforcement community, that may well be enough for them to justify their
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recent incursion of SH's civil rights.
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Square Deal for Cable Pirates
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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by David Hartshorn
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National Programming Service has signed an agreement with 12 programmers
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representing 18 channel for an early conversion package for consumers with
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illegally modified VideoCipher II modules. The deal will be offered only to
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customers who convert their modified VideoCipher II modules to VC II Plus
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Consumer Security Protection Program (CSPP) modules. The program will be an
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option to NPS' current five-service minimum purchase required for conversion
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customers.
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Participating programmers have agreed to offer complimentary programming
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through the end of 1991 for conversion customers. To qualify, customers must
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buy an annual subscription which will start on January 1, 1992 and run though
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December 31, 1992. Any additional programming customers want to buy will start
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on the day they convert and will run for 12 consecutive months.
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NPS president Mike Schroeder said the objective of the program is to get
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people paying legally for programming from the ranks of those who are not. If
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a customer keeps his modified unit, he will be spending at least $600 for a new
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module in late 1992, plus programming, when he will be forced to convert due to
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a loss of audio in his modified unit. If a customer converts now to a VC II
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Plus with MOM (Videopal), then the net effective cost to the customer will be
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only $289.55 (figuring a $105 programming credit from Videopal and about $90
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complimentary programming).
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Included in the deal are ABC, A&E, Bravo, CBS, Discovery Channel, Family
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Channel, NBC, Lifetime, Prime Network, PrimeTime 24, TNN, USA Network, WPIX,
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WSBK, and WWOR. The package will retail for $179.99.
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Details: (800)444-3474
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Clark Development Systems Gets Tough
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by Crimson Death (Sysop of Free Speech BBS)
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Most of you have heard of PC-Board BBS software, but what you may not have
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heard is what Clark Development Systems are trying to do with people running
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illegal copies of his software. The Following messages appeared on Salt Air
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BBS, which is the support BBS for PC-Board registered owners.
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Date: 08-19-91 (11:21) Number: 88016 of 88042
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To: ALL Refer#: NONE
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>From: FRED CLARK Read: HAS REPLIES
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Subj: WARNING Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
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Conf: SUPPORT (1) Read Type: GENERAL (A) (+)
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********************************** WARNING **********************************
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Due to the extent and nature of a number of pirate PCBoard systems which have
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been identified around the US and Canada, we are now working closely with
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several other software manufacturers through the SPA (Software Publisher's
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Association) in order to prosecute these people. Rather than attempting to
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prosecute them solely through our office and attorney here in Salt Lake, we
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will now be taking advantage of the extensive legal resources of the SPA to
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investigate and shut down these systems. Since a single copyright violation
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will be prosecuted to the full extent of $50,000 per infringement, a number of
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these pirates are in for a big surprise when the FBI comes knocking on their
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door. Please note that the SPA works closely with the FBI in the prosecution
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of these individuals since their crimes are involved with trafficking over
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state lines.
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The SPA is now working closely with us and the information we have concerning
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the illegal distribution of our and other software publisher's wares. Please
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do not allow yourself to become involved with these people as you may also be
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brought into any suits and judgements won against them.
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We are providing this information as reference only and are not pointing a
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finger at any one specific person or persons who are accessing this system.
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This message may be freely distributed.
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Fred Clark
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President
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Clark Development Company, Inc.
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Date: 08-19-91 (08:28) Number: 47213 of 47308
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To: AL LAWRENCE Refer#: NONE
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>From: DAVID TERRY Read: NO
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Subj: BETA CODE IS NOW OFFLINE Status: RECEIVER ONLY
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PLEASE NOTE! (This message is addressed to ALL!)
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The beta code is now offline and may be offline for a couple of days. After
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finding a program which cracks PCBoard's registration code I have taken the
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beta code offline so that I can finish up work on the other routines I've been
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working on which will not be cracked so easily. I'm sorry if the removal
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inconveniences anyone. However, it's quite obvious that SOMEONE HERE leaked
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the beta code to a hacker otherwise the hacker could not have worked on
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breaking the registration code.
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I'm sorry that the few inconsiderates have to make life difficult for the rest
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of you (and us). If that's the way the game is played, so be it.
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P.S. -- We've found a couple of large pirate boards (who we have not notified)
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who should expect to see the FBI show up on their doorstep in the not
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too distant future. Pass the word along. If people want to play rough
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then we'll up the ante a bit ... getting out of jail won't be cheap!
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Seems to me they are trying to scare everyone. I think the FBI has
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better things to do than go around catching System Operators who didn't
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purchase PC-Board. At least I hope they do. First they put in a key that was
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needed to run the beta version of PCB and you could only get it by typing
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REGISTER on Salt Air, it would then encrypt your name and give you the key so
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you could register you beta. Expiration date were also implemented into the
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beta code of 14.5a, but the first day this was released on Salt Air, pirates
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already designed a program to make your own key with any name you wanted. It
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appears that with this "new" technique that Clark Systems are trying failed
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too. As it is cracked already also. Maybe they should be more concerned on
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how PC-Board functions as a BBS rather than how to make it crack-proof. As
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most pirate system don't run PC-Board anyway!
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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Georgia's New Area Code
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Telephone use in Georgia has increased so rapidly -- caused by increased
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population and the use of services like fax machines and mobile telephones that
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they are running out of telephone numbers.
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Southern <Fascist> Bell will establish a new area code -- 706 -- in
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Georgia in May 1992. The territory currently designated by the 404 area code
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will be split.
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Customers in the Atlanta Metropolitan local calling area will continue to
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use the 404 area code. Customers outside the Atlanta Metropolitan toll free
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calling area will use the 706 area code. The 912 area code (South Georgia)
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will not be affected by this change.
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They realize the transition to a new area code will take some getting used
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to. So, between May 3, 1992 and August 2, 1992, you can dial EITHER 706 or 404
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to reach numbers in the new area. After August 2, 1992, the use of the 706
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area code is required.
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They announced the the new area code far in advance to allow customers to
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plan for the change.
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Unplug July 20, 1991
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>From AT&T Newsbriefs (and contributing sources; the San Francisco Chronicle
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(7/20/91, A5) and the Dallas Times Herald (7/20/91, A20)
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A prankster who intercepted and rerouted confidential telephone messages
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from voice mail machines in City Hall <of Houston, Texas> prompted officials to
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pull the plug on the phone system. The city purchased the high-tech telephone
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system in 1986 for $28 million. But officials forget to require each worker to
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use a password that allows only that worker to retrieve or transfer voice
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messages from their "phone mailboxes," said AT&T spokesman Virgil Wildey. As a
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result, Wildey said, someone who understands the system can transfer messages
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around, creating chaos.
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The Bust For Red October
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By Stickman, Luis Cipher, Orion, Haywire, Sledge, and Kafka Kierkegaard
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At 8:00 AM on August 7, 1991 in Walnut Creek, California the house of
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Steven Merenko, alias Captain Ramius, was raided by Novell attorneys
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occompanied by five federal marshals. All of his computer equipment was
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confiscated by the Novell attorneys; including disks, tape backups, and all
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hardware.
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Novell officials had filed an affidavit in the United States District
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Court for the Northern District of California. They charge Merenko had
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illegally distributing Novell NetWare files.
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A Novell investigator logged on to Merenko's BBS as a regular user 11
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times over a period of a several months. He uploaded a piece of commercial
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software from another company, with the company's permission, in order to gain
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credibility and eventually download a file part of Novell NetWare 386 v3.11,
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which with a full-blown installation costs more than $10,000.
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Novell issued a Civil suit against The Red October BBS, and because of
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that Merenko will not go to jail if he is found guilty of letting other people
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download any copyrighted or commercial software. The maximum penalty in a
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civil case as this one is $100,000 per work infringed.
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The Red October BBS was THG/TSAN/NapE Site with four nodes, 4 gigabytes of
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hard drive space online and had been running for four years.
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Novell's Anti-Piracy Rampage
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Novell's raid on the Red October BBS on August 7, 1991 is the latest in a
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two-year ongoing anti-piracy venture. In the same week as the Red October
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bust, the original Wishlist BBS in Redondo Beach, California was also raided.
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Last April (1991), Novell sued seven resellers in five states that were accused
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of illegally selling NetWare. In the fall of last year they seized the
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computer equipment of two men in Tennessee accused of reselling NetWare over
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BBSs. According to David Bradford, senior vice president and general counsel
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at Novell and chairman of the Copyright Protection Fund of the Software
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Publisher's Association, the crackdown on software piracy has paid off.
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Lottery May Use Nintendo As Another Way To Play September 1, 1991
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Taken from Minneapolis Star Tribune (Section B)
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"Several kinks have yet to be worked out."
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Minnesota gamblers soon could be winning jackpots as early as 1993 from
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the comfort of their own living rooms. The state will begin testing a new
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system next summer that will allow gamblers to pick numbers and buy tickets at
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home by using a Nintendo control deck. The system, to be created by the state
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and Control Data Corporation, would be somewhat similar to banking with an
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automated teller machine card. Gamblers would use a Nintendo control deck and
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a state lottery cartridge. The cartridge would be connected by phone to the
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lottery's computer system, allowing players to pick Lotto America, Daily 3 and
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Gopher 5 numbers, and play the instant cash games. Players would gain access
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to the system by punching in personal security codes or passwords. Incorrect
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passwords would be rejected. Only adults would be allowed to play.
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A number of kinks, including setting up a pay-in-advance system for
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players to draw on, computer security and adult registration, must be worked
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out. 32% of Minnesota households have Nintendo units. About half of those who
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use the units are older than 18. Those chosen to participate in the summer
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experiment will be given a Nintendo control deck, phone modem and lottery
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cartridge.
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15,000 Cuckoo Letters September 8, 1991
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Reprinted from RISKS Digest
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>From: Cliff Stoll
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In 1989, I wrote, "The Cuckoo's Egg", the true story of how we tracked
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down a computer intruder. Figuring that a few people might wish to communicate
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with me, I included my e-mail address in the book's forward.
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To my astonishment, it became a bestseller and I've received a tidal wave
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of e-mail. In 2 years, about 15,000 letters have arrived over four networks
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(Internet, Genie, Compuserve, and AOL). This suggests that about 1 to 3
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percent of readers send e-mail.
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I've been amazed at the diversity of the questions and comments: ranging
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from comments on my use of "hacker" to improved chocolate chip cookie recipes.
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Surprisingly, very few flames and insulting letters arrived - a few dozen or
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so.
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I've tried to answer each letter individually; lately I've created a few
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macros to answer the most common questions. About 5% of my replies bounce, I
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wonder how many people don't get through.
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I'm happy to hear from people; it's a gas to realize how far the book's
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reached (letters from Moscow, the South Pole, Finland, Japan, even Berkeley);
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but I'm going to spend more time doing astronomy and less time answering mail.
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Cheers, Cliff Stoll cliff@cfa.harvard.edu
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stoll@ocf.berkeley.edu
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