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Rosenfeld -- known on computer networks by the code name Storm Shadow -- is a hacker who went to extremes, a cyberpunk who surfed right off the edge. Authorities say he was just one of many bandits stalking the electronic highways. In recent years, individual outlaws and entire "gangs" have broken / into computers all over the U.S., using their wits and wiles to pilfer and destroy data...
...member of a cyberpunk gang called Force Hackers. Before long, he was devising electronic schemes to swipe cash from Western Union, phone service from the Baby Bells and valuable credit information wherever it could be found. "We once pulled the credit reports of a whole town in Oregon," Storm Shadow recalls...
...While Storm Shadow is doing time, a bigger case involves five other young hackers, some of whom have had dealings with Rosenfeld. All five are allegedly members of a gang called Masters of Disaster. They are charged with breaking into computers at a host of companies and institutions, including the University of Washington, Bank of America, ITT and Martin Marietta. In one of its most damaging raids, the group allegedly wiped out most of the data on the Learning Link, a computer owned by a New York City public-TV station that provides educational information for hundreds of schools...
...Moody resignation" was the only real way to describe the feeling following the group like a cartoon storm cloud...
...years after Operation Desert Storm, Saddam is still the bogeyman who will not go away. The new Administration will be examining him with fresh as well as relatively inexperienced eyes. None of Clinton's key foreign policy people -- Aspin, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, CIA chief R. James Woolsey, National Security Adviser W. Anthony Lake -- are Middle East experts. When they begin their Iraq policy review, they will have to rely on the holdover Bush specialists like Dennis Ross, former director of policy planning at State, and Edward Djerejian, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs...