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 Ganz offenbar hat hier eine/r Spezialist/in ein paar der
 wichtigsten HiTech Unis in den USA gehackt & Megatonnen
 Passwörter gesammelt. Die Spur des Verlangens nach "greater
 access" führt zurück auf den alten Kontinent.
 
 post/scrypt: Bei aller An/strengung zum Objektiven ist ein
 klamm/heimliches "vive l'europe" nicht ganz ver/kneifbar.
 
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 9:58 a.m. PDT Thursday, August 13, 1998 BERKELEY, Calif.
 (AP) -- Using an Internet program called ``John the
 Ripper,'' a hacker has broken into computer accounts at
 universities and companies around the world to steal
 encrypted passwords.
 
 The FBI is investigating the case, in which 48,000 passwords
 were decoded from a list of 186,000. Authorities believe the
 hacker is operating from somewhere in Europe because the
 first known case involved computers at European
 universities.
 
 >From there, the hacker reportedly broke into accounts at a
 Silicon Valley company, an Internet service provider in
 Indiana, the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, the
 California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts
 Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
 
 ``The technology he was using is not sophisticated, but
 what's interesting here is the scope,'' said Doug Tygar, a
 computer expert at Carnegie Mellon University who will join
 the UC Berkeley faculty this fall.
 
 ``I'm impressed by his persistence to keep something running
 for that long,'' Tygar told the San Francisco Chronicle in a
 story published today. ``The stamina to collect this number
 of passwords is pretty awe-inspiring.''
 
 The cyber intruder apparently did not seek out classified
 information or break into government accounts, but trotted
 the globe electronically for passwords in a quest for
 greater access. He or she gained access to the Internet
 through Telenordia, an Internet service provider in Sweden,
 and left a computer trail through England, Denmark and South
 Korea.
 
 Full text
 http://spyglass1.sjmercury.com/breaking/docs/043153.htm
 
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 http://www.dis.org/erehwon/
 
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