Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 20:11:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: At Large Message-ID: <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. 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." Annelise
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