Word: stoll
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distracted by television to sit down and read. Right? Wrong. In the past two years alone, the number of children's publications tracked by the Educational Press Association of America has nearly doubled, from 85 to 160, bringing their total circulation to an impressive 40 million. Says Don Stoll, executive director of the EPAA: "There has been extraordinary activity in children's periodicals...
...entice the hackers to spend more time on the network, Stoll created a Trojan Horse of his own called "SDI Net," which documented fictitious military information. The hackers took the bait and spent more than two hours reading the material...
Three months later, Stoll said, he received a letter from a man in Pittsburgh asking for information about SDI Net. In April, 1987, he turned the letter over to the FBI, who found that the man had connections to Eastern European governments and immediately began an investigation...
...Stoll said, the spy ring attempted to break into about 450 different computers and succeeded in gaining access to more than 40 of them--including data systems at the Pentagon, defense contracting firms and U.S. military bases in Germany, Okinawa, California and Virginia...
...Stoll said he notified each of the intended victims as soon as the hackers attacked, most of whom quickly shut off the intrusions. In order to keep watching the spies, he continued to allow them access to his own computer at the Lawrence Berkeley...