Forwarded From: Colonel Mustard <mustard@tacd.com>
Here's a news article I found at
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/media/colodaily/98/zmay7/hack7e.html
Alleged hacker goes to court
By EILEEN LAMBERT
Colorado Daily Staff Writer
A CU student accused of giving away 12 CU e-mail passwords to other
hackers throughout the world, a crime carrying serious consequences, had
his first appearance in court Wednesday.
Joshua Gregory Pearson, 18, could face one to three years in the state
penitentiary if he is found guilty of the crime. Although the crime
allegedly occurred in March, a standard five-week delay, inherent in
crimes with a felony summons, instead of immediate arrests allows
prosecutors to investigate the case thoroughly before bringing the issue
to court.
"There's no huge rush," said Peter Brandon, a CU police officer.
"There's no perishable evidence."
Since the CU computer network security was breached, CU's Information
Technology Services
has worked to make sure people encrypt information transferred over
Internet lines.
"New networking in the dormitories will be architected to avoid
eavesdropping," said Ken Klingenstein, ITS director. Eavesdropping means
that, "People sit in on the network and grab people's passwords, which is
basically how the password is taken.
"Additional networking in the dormitories will provide another level of
defense against this type of action in the future," Klingenstein said.
Although this computer crime has pretty much been closed as far as ITS is
concerned, these types of crimes in general will continue to consume a
large amount of technology officials' time, Klingenstein said.
"More people are using computers," he said. "The volume of these types of
incidences are certainly increasing.
"We, unfortunately, need to spend part of our time supplying legal
defenses," he said.
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Received on Fri May 8 08:59:57 1998