Reply From: Raj Mathur <raju@sgi.com>
mea> -- In 1994, criminals operating in several countries hacked
mea> into the Citibank Cash Management System that is used for
mea> functions such as wire transfers. They attempted 40 transfers
mea> totaling $10 million.
mea> -- Late last year, authorities in this country and Israel
mea> arrested three teenagers who are suspects in a series of
mea> intrusions into Department of Defense and other government
mea> agencies' computers.
mea> -- Earlier this year, a Massachusetts teenager pleaded guilty
mea> to having crippled an airport's control tower by using a
mea> computer to disable voice and data communications.
I find this choice of nouns rather interesting. The people who hack
Citibank are ``criminals''. The ones who potentially cause much more
damage (crippling a control tower == potential danger to human life)
are simply ``teenagers''. Does the choice of words reflect the
writer's mindset or the status of investigations/court cases, or am I
just being my normal paranoid self?
-- Raju
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Received on Wed Oct 7 08:58:49 1998