Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 21:09:55 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: At Large Message-ID: <199709090409.VAA13111@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Sep 1997 20:11:59 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970908195425.11846A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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>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.
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>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.
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>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
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