Conference noted::hackers_v1

83.0. "Followup on the Huntsville kids" by PIXEL::PWONG () Thu Dec 20 1984 13:18

Newsgroups: net.general
Path: decwrl!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!clyde!bonnie!akgua!jett!linwood
Subject: Re: hackers
Posted: Fri Dec 14 10:02:59 1984

As most of you remember, 4 kids got caught breaking into the NASA computer
at the Marshell Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama this summer, so
I thought I would bring you an update on them since I know all 4
(unfortunatly).  One of the four is seems to have been effected by the
break in and seems not to take as much intrest in the computer world as he 
did.  I do not know robert grumbles that well, but i think he is still
pretty active, but he suffered most because he had the most equipment 
confiscated.  The two others are alive and well too.  Both seem highly
reguarded by their computer teacher in spite of what they did.  The teacher
does not seem to think that the break in was all that serious, and one
of them will soon be in charge of the school computer system after the
computer operator presently in charge graduates.  I have a personal grudge
against him, since he broke in to this computer from information derived
from other people who had accounts.  All of his loopholes have been closed
I am happy to say.  The computer they all broke into at NASA was only an
RSX - 11 system anyway, not to hard to get by security precautions.

	- Linwood Varney (Jett Unix System, Huntsville, AL)