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...late in a June evening last year when a high school student in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dialed a seven-digit number and logged onto the GTE Telenet Communications Network. The teenager began roaming through the New York area of the national system that ties more than 1200 computers together into a setup open to about 150,000 paying customers. Accessing systems almost at random, the student gave the name set of standard answers to demands for password identification from the large computers on the network--hello, test, sysop--ht might type, as his screens filled with logos from systems thousands...
...doing damage, the opportunities are boundless. One 14-year-old brags that he penetrated a computer belonging to a brokerage firm and erased a group of commodity trading accounts. Particularly vulnerable are the 1,200 computer systems that can be reached through a single telephone call to GTE Telenet, a network based in Vienna, Va. Last summer the FBI singled out for investigation a gang of Milwaukee-area youths who had used Telenet to enter a number of different systems, including unclassified Defense Department computers and a machine monitoring the treatment of cancer patients in a New York City hospital...
...have been at least a dozen major cases of tampering or theft of computer data in the U.S. "There is a whole epidemic of malicious system hacking going on," says Donn Parker, computer crime specialist at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif. Concurs Ron Zeitz, a spokesman for GTE Telenet, the computer network used to get into the Sloan-Kettering system: "It's like the skyjacking phenomenon. People are going to try what other people are getting away with...
...youngsters' prank was feasible because most of the penetrated computers had been linked by GTE Telenet Inc., which provides access to computer systems in 325 U.S. cities and 50 nations. Ron Zeitz, Telenet's public affairs director, said that gifted amateurs do occasionally get into unclassified data banks, but that classified military data are virtually impossible to intercept. WarGames, said Zeitz, is "a delightful movie, but it just couldn't happen that...
Xcalibur allows users at terminals from around campus and from as far away as Ursinus College in Pennsylvania to exchange messages Students nationwide utilize the program by obtaining a valid user number from the national Telenet computer system...