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...even as the chair of Harvard's economics department says the University may soon have to make Major League Baseball-style offers to hold on to academic stars like Barrow, President Neil L. Rudenstine reaffirmed this week Harvard's refusal to enter bidding wars for high-dollar scholars...
According to Michael L. Barrow, MIT Network Operation network engineer, MIT's Unix network, known as Athena, as well as several students' personal computers, have recently been the targets of computer infiltrators...
...Barrow said that these individuals should be referred to as "crackers" rather than "hackers" because they did much more damage to the systems than those who spend time fooling around with computer programs...
...September and October, Barrow said that MIT found evidence that persons outside of the MIT network had obtained the usernames and passwords of legitimate users. The "crackers" were able to obtain this data by intercepting non-encrypted information from e-mail programs like Telnet and Eudora...
...basic problem, Barrow said, is that MIT "runs an open network." As such, there is nothing to separate MIT's network from the Internet at large...