From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 8 21:09:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA00578 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA00565 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13111; Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709090409.VAA13111@implode.root.com> To: Annelise Anderson cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: At Large In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Sep 1997 20:11:59 PDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 21:09:55 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >I read At Large (by David H. Freedman and Charles C. Mann) yesterday. >The story of "Phantomd" (and his IRC #hack friends Grok and Jsz), >who broke into an extraordinary number of computer systems around >1991-92. > >A good read; a sad story; a cautionary tale; a discouraging view of >computer security. I had not known about Phantomd before; probably >many of you did. > >And it mentions FreeBSD, once (p. 220). Someone with the username >mycroft (he is not identified by real nameany) at MIT, one of >the places successfully and repeatedly intruded upon, writes the >sniffer that tracks what Phantomd is doing. "Although not many of >his fellows in the Laboratory for Computer Science knew it, Mycroft >was on the board of Free-BSD, an international project that worked, >like the Free Software Foundation, to create a version of Unix >without code from AT&T." 1) FreeBSD didn't exist in 1991-1992 2) There's only one mycroft at MIT that I know about, and he was never part of the FreeBSD "board" or development. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project