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| PHRACK TRIVIA |
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| This is pretty damn hard. In fact, some of it is downright obscure. |
| And the bonuses? Forget about it. Answer the questions, expand the |
| acronyms, explain the numbers. |
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| The five highest scorers by the next issue (or the first 5 to get |
| perfect scores) win COOL STUFF! |
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| Send your answers to phrack@well.sf.ca.us |
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| 1) CCIS |
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| 2) Stimpson J. Cat's Roommate is? |
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| 3) Name the cracker. |
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| 4) METAL AE password. |
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| 5) Who invented the TeleTrial? |
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| 6) Name Bloom County's hacker. |
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| 7) What was the Whiz Kids' computer named? |
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| 8) Western Union owned what long distance service? |
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| 9) What computer read both Apple ][ and IBM PC disks? |
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| 10) Who made the "Charlie" board? |
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| 11) How many credits for a CNE? |
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| 12) What was in the trunk of the Chevy Malibu? |
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| 13) Name three bands A. Jourgensen had a hand in. |
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| 14) SYSTEST Password: |
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| 15) What computer makes the best SimStim decks? |
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| 16) What magazine brought the telephone underground to national |
| attention in 1971? |
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| 17) What is the significance of 1100 + 1700 hz? |
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| 18) What magazine was raided for publishing black box plans? |
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| 19) What BBS raid spawned the headlines "Whiz Kids Zap Satellites" ? |
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| 20) CLASS |
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| 21) What computer responds "OSL, Please" ? |
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| 22) RACF secures what OS? |
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| 23) The first person to create a glider gun got what? |
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| 24) QRM |
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| 25) PSS |
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| 26) What PSN was acquired by GTE Telenet? |
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| 27) 914-725-4060 |
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| 28) April 15, 1943 |
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| 29) 8LGM |
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| 30) WOPR |
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| 31) What happened on March 1, 1990? |
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| 32) Port 79 |
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| 33) Who starred in the namesake of Neil Gorsuch's UNIX security |
| mailing list? |
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| 34) What Dutch scientist did research in RF monitoring? |
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| 35) What was the author of GURPS Cyberpunk better known as? |
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| 36) Who would "Piss on a spark plug if he thought it would do |
| any good?" |
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| 37) What thinktank did Nickie Halflinger escape from? |
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| 38) NCSC |
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| 39) Who is Pengo's favorite astronomer? |
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| 40) What language was Mitnik's favorite OS written in? |
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| 41) Abdul Alhazred wrote what? |
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| 42) The answer to it all is? |
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| 43) Who is the father of computer security? |
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| 44) Who wrote VCL? |
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| 45) What kind of computer did Cosmo have? |
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| 46) Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammet, Newstead |
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| 47) What company wrote the computer game "Hacker?" |
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| 48) Who does Tim Foley work for? |
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| 49) Who played Agent Cooper? |
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| 50) Vines runs over what OS? |
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| 51) Mr. Peabody built what? |
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| 52) Who makes SecurID? |
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| 53) What's in a Mexican Flag? |
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| 54) Who created Interzone? |
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| 55) JAMs (as led by John Dillinger) |
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| 56) Abbie Hoffman helped start what phreak magazine? |
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| 57) What was once "Reality Hackers?" |
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| 58) Gates and Allen "wrote" BASIC for what computer? |
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| 59) Tahoe is related to what OS? |
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| 60) CPE 1704 TKS is what? |
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| 61) Telemail's default was what? |
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| 62) "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" became what? |
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| 63) What broadcasts between roughly 40 and 50 mhz? |
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| 64) Who created Tangram, Stratosphere, and Phaedra among others? |
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| 65) What was Flynn's most popular video game? |
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| 66) Who lived in Goose Island, Oregon? |
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| 67) 516-935-2481 |
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| 68) What is the security of ComSecMilNavPac? |
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| 69) What has the "spiral death trap?" |
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| 70) Who was the Midnight Skulker? |
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| 71) TMRC |
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| 72) Who wrote "Jawbreaker?" |
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| 73) 213-080-1050 |
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| 74) What is the Tetragrammaton represented as? |
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| 75) Who is Francis J. Haynes? |
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| 76) Who ran into one of the Akira test subjects? |
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| 77) What had "Munchies, Fireballs and Yllabian Space Guppies?" |
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| 78) PARC |
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| 79) Alex and his droogs hung out where? |
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| 80) Jane Chandler in DC's "Hacker Files" is based on who? |
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| 81) The Artificial Kid lives on what planet? |
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| 82) 208057040540 |
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| 83) What are the two most common processors for cellular phones? |
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| 84) Who came up with the term "ICE?" |
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| 85) What group is hoped might help the "Angels" contact RMS? |
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| 86) Who is Akbar's friend? |
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| 87) What company's games was David Lightman after? |
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| 88) 26.0.0.0 |
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| 89) Who was Mr. Slippery forced to locate? |
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| 90) Who is "The Whistler?" |
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| 91) What use would a 6.5536 crystal be? |
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| 92) .--. .... .-. .- -.-. -.- |
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| 93) The Dark Avenger likes what group? |
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| 94) What book spawned the term "worm?" |
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| 95) Michael in "Prime Risk" wanted money for what? |
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| 96) Automan's programmer worked for who? |
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| 97) What signal filled in keystrokes on TOPS-20? |
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| 98) ITS |
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| 99) (a/c)+121 |
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| 100) What drug kept the scanners sane? |
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| Bonus 1 |
| 3 pts Name three bodies of work by Andrew Blake. |
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| Bonus 2 |
| 3 pts Name three currently available titles with N. L. Kuzma. |
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| Bonus 3 |
| 4 pts Why would I hate Angel Broadhurst? |
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| IF SECURITY TYPES WERE K-RAD |
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| IRC log started Fri June 18 01:14 |
| *** Value of LOG set to ON |
| <Pat> bye peter |
| *** Signoff: hackman (slavin' to da' MAN at TRW) |
| <Ed> Dudez, I HATE filling out thez incident Rep0rtz |
| <bartman> MUAHAHA Tuff J0b edd1e! |
| <Ed> Funni |
| *** zen (zen@death.corp.sun.com) has joined channel #CERT |
| <Ed> re dan, just missed yer pal peety |
| <Pat> Hi Dan! |
| <zen> pal? right. ask the wife... |
| <venom> re |
| <zen> d00dz, we have SO many bugz. sux 2 be me. |
| *** venom has left channel #CERT |
| *** venom (weitse@wzv.win.tue.nl) has joined channel #CERT |
| *** venom has left channel #CERT |
| *** venom (weitse@wzv.win.tue.nl) has joined channel #CERT |
| *** venom has left channel #CERT |
| *** venom (weitse@wzv.win.tue.nl) has joined channel #CERT |
| <venom> ARG! |
| <bartman> WTF Weitse? |
| <venom> s0rri |
| <zen> Where is everyone? Anyone seen spaf? |
| <Pat> I have. He was going to install something. He should be bak. |
| <zen> ah |
| *** Action: Ed throws darts at a cracker |
| <zen> heh |
| <venom> muaha |
| *** bartman is now known as Cracker |
| *** Action: Cracker hacks Cert with an axe |
| <venom> dats a good 1 |
| *** Action Ed kicks cracker in the nuts |
| <Cracker> OUCH! |
| *** Signoff: donn (Bad Link?) |
| <Cracker> [high voice] fuk u CERT! |
| <Ed> heh. |
| *** Action: Pat is ROFL |
| <Cracker> wonder who's on #hack? Mebbe i should go log em. |
| <Ed> Yeah. Oh hey, I got certbot online. Ill send it to go log. |
| *** certbot (ed@cert.org) has joined channel #CERT |
| *** certbot has left channel #CERT |
| <Ed> this will be fun. |
| <venom> Hey, letz deop them and take over the channel. |
| <zen> thats L A M E |
| <Cracker> Ooooh. OPWARZ! I'll go make their channel +i muahaha |
| *** Cracker has left channel #CERT |
| *** Casper (casper@fwi.uva.nl) has joined channel #CERT |
| <Casper> re all |
| <Venom> hey dik-head. |
| <zen> re |
| <Pat> hahahaha hi d00d. |
| <Casper> funni whitesey venombreath |
| <Ed> lame. |
| *** donn (parker@bandit.sri.com) has joined channel #CERT |
| <donn> 'sup? |
| <Ed> re, oh great bald one |
| <donn> eat me |
| <zen> bahhahaha |
| <Pat> Now now boyz. |
| *** spaf (spaf@cs.purdue.edu) has joined channel #CERT |
| <Pat> Spaffie! |
| <zen> 3l33t SPAF! |
| <Ed> re spaf |
| <spaf> Yo. |
| <venom> spaf...your book sucks. |
| <spaf> oh fuck off dutch boy. |
| <Casper> HEY!$!@% |
| *** spaf has been kicked off channel #CERT by Casper |
| <venom> thx dude |
| <Ed> oh gawd...feetball |
| *** spaf (spaf@cs.purdue.edu) has joined channel #CERT |
| <spaf> lame |
| *** Mode change "+o -o spaf Casper" on channel #CERT by Pat |
| <spaf> thanks sweetie. |
| <Casper> op! |
| *** Mode change "+o Casper" on channel #CERT by venom |
| <Casper> thx d00d |
| <Ed> Hey dan, you got those patches online? |
| <zen> maybe. What YOU got? |
| <donn> WAREZZ |
| <Pat> heh |
| <Ed> I dunno. Ill dcc you a filelist. |
| <zen> kool |
| *** zardoz (neil@cpd.com) has joined channel #CERT |
| <zardoz> HEY ... anyone want to contribute to my new list? |
| <Ed> not me |
| <zen> mebbe. Whats this one called? Coredoz? |
| <donn> what list? |
| <spaf> BAH. Fuck your list man. More crackrs have them than we do! |
| <zardoz> who pissed in your coffee gene? |
| <donn> heh |
| *** zardoz is now known as neil |
| <spaf> bah... I'm sick of those dicks using my own holes against me! |
| <venom> Your holes? Yer a-hole? |
| <Pat> What is your list about this time? |
| <neil> same thing. Its called REWT! |
| *** neil is now known as REWT |
| <REWT> SEND ME YER BUGZ!@# |
| *** Action: spaf sends REWT a 50 gig coredump |
| <Pat> :) |
| <REWT> u r lame. |
| *** REWT is now known as neil |
| <Ed> I hate these reports. I wish I got to travel more. |
| <Pat> come see me! |
| <Casper> oooohhhh....netsex! |
| <spaf> tramp. :P |
| *** bill (whmurray@dockmaster.ncsa.mil) has joined channel #CERT |
| <bill> word! |
| <Pat> hi bill. |
| <donn> Bill! D00d! I am gonna be in Ct. next week! |
| <bill> RAD! call me voice at werk. we'll thrash! |
| <donn> you know it! |
| <zen> oh puh-lease...the geriatric partiers :) |
| <donn> farmboy |
| <Ed> ***** ***** ***** ***** |
| <Ed> * * * * * |
| <Ed> * *** **** * |
| <Ed> * * * * * |
| <Ed> ***** ***** * * * |
| <Ed> |
| <Ed> ***** * * * ***** ***** ** |
| <Ed> * * * * * * * ** |
| <Ed> **** * * * *** ***** ** |
| <Ed> * * * * * * * |
| <Ed> * * ***** ***** ***** ***** ** |
| <Pat> No DUMPING! |
| <zen> cert freshens your breath |
| <donn> ACK! |
| <venom> hee! certs haha |
| *** ray (kaplan@bpa.arizona.edu) has joined channel #CERT |
| <ray> hey guys! |
| <Ed> ugh. Cracker lover alert. |
| <donn> commie |
| <bill> Hey ray, come to snoop for your little cracker friends? |
| <ray> come on, give it a rest guys. |
| <Pat> hi ray |
| <venom> ? |
| *** Action: spaf spits on ray |
| <spaf> heh |
| *** ray has been kicked off channel #CERT by spaf |
| *** Mode change "+b *!*@bpa.arizona.edu" on channel #CERT by spaf |
| <neil> hey I wanted to talk to him about my list... |
| <spaf> tough shit. |
| <donn> heh. |
| *** bartman (ddrew@opus.tymnet.com) has joined channel #CERT |
| <Pat> re |
| <Ed> how goes the takeover? |
| <venom> didja kick em? |
| <bartman> #hack is +i! muahahaha |
| <zen> how exciting. not |
| <donn> they deserve it...they are all punks. |
| <spaf> hmm..did you get emails? I may want to call their admins. |
| <bartman> nope damn. |
| <Ed> certbot was there. He got it. |
| <spaf> coolness |
| *** Signoff: bill (Bad link?) |
| <Casper> ne1 going to hactics thing? |
| <venom> me |
| <Casper> besides you. duh. |
| <Ed> dunno. |
| <bartman> not me. I have no desire to pay for anything done by hackers |
| <Ed> That reminds me. Did anyone subscribe to Phrack? |
| <Pat> nope. |
| <bartman> oops. HAHAHAHAHAHA |
| <Ed> heh. |
| <donn> Whats phrak? |
| <neil> nope. my list is better. Who wants on it? |
| <Pat> me! |
| <donn> what list? |
| <Pat> OOH! I have mail! bye! |
| <bartman> itz an ansi bomb! |
| <Ed> bye Pat |
| <Spaf> l8r |
| <neil> heh. |
| *** Signoff: Pat (Hugs to all) |
| <Casper> well, i better do something productive 2. cya |
| <venom> slatez d00d. |
| *** Signoff: Casper (Hi ho hi ho its off to work I go) |
| <donn> man its late. I better go. I gotta speech in the morn |
| <Ed> you are getting old. |
| <donn> am not |
| <Ed> are so |
| <donn> am not |
| <Ed> are too! infinity |
| <donn> hasta |
| *** Signoff: donn (|/dev/null) |
| <Ed> laterz |
| <Spaf> geez. what a bunch of lamers. |
| (ray/#CERT) UNBAN ME! |
| <Spaf> hahaha |
| <Ed> never gives up does he? |
| <neil> seriously ed, Ive helped you guys out, send me stuff for REWT. |
| <Ed> ill think about it |
| <spaf> not |
| <neil> it will be most savory. I promise. And secure! |
| <spaf> pfft...and monkeys might fly out of my butt |
| <Ed> Ill think about it. |
| <zen> heh, I should do one called Supernova. Exploding suns. hehe |
| <Ed> heh |
| <spaf> dats tha tr00f! |
| <bartman> i like my sun |
| <Ed> i know a bunch of crackerz who like bt's suns too. |
| <spaf> hahahahahahahahahaha |
| <venom> oh shit. Im late. |
| *** Signoff: venom (LATE!) |
| <Ed> late 4 what? |
| <spaf> his vasectomy. har har |
| <neil> heh |
| *** REVENGE (kaplan@ai.bpb.arizona.edu) has joined channel #CERT |
| *** Mode change "+o REVENGE" on channel #CERT by eff.org |
| <Ed> whoops |
| *** Mode change "+i" on channel #CERT by REVENGE |
| <spaf> fuCK! KICK HIM! |
| *** spaf has been kicked off channel #CERT by REVENGE |
| *** neil has been kicked off channel #CERT by REVENGE |
| *** bartman has been kicked off channel #CERT by REVENGE |
| *** Ed has been kicked off channel #CERT by REVENGE |
| *** zen has been kicked off channel #CERT by REVENGE |
| *** REVENGE is now known as ray |
| <ray> hehe |
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| THE STATE OF SECURITY IN CYBERSPACE |
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| SRI International conducted a worldwide study in 1992 of a broad range of |
| security issues in "cyberspace." In brief, cyberspace is the full set of |
| public and private communications networks in the United States and elsewhere, |
| including telephone or public switched telephone networks (PSTNs), packet data |
| networks (PDNs) of various kinds, pure computer networks, including the |
| Internet, and wireless communications systems, such as the cellular telephone |
| system. We did not address security vulnerabilities associated with |
| classified, secure communications networks used by and for governments. |
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| The study was conducted as part of our ongoing research into the |
| vulnerabilities of various software components of cyberspace. Our approach was |
| to conduct research through field interviews with a broad range of experts, |
| including people we characterize as "good hackers," about security issues and |
| vulnerabilities of cyberspace and the activities of the international |
| "malicious hacker" community. |
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| While the specific results of the study are proprietary to SRI, this brief |
| report summarizes our general conclusions for the many individuals who kindly |
| participated in our field interviews. As we indicated during our field |
| interviews, the original research for this project was not part of any other |
| kind of investigation, and we have not revealed the identify of any of our |
| respondents. |
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| The study aimed to understand "malicious hackers," that is, people who have and |
| use the technical knowledge, capability, and motivation to gain unauthorized |
| access, for various reasons, to systems in cyberspace. It is important to |
| understand that by no means all hackers are malicious nor does most hacking |
| involve unauthorized access to cyberspace systems; indeed, only a small |
| fraction of computer hacking involves such activities but gives hacking an |
| otherwise undeserved bad reputation. While we attempted to focus on technical |
| (software) vulnerabilities, our interviews led us to look more at the broader |
| motivations and different approaches to cracking into various networks and |
| networked systems. |
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| MAIN CONCLUSIONS |
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| Our main conclusion is that social, organizational, and technological factors |
| still combine in ways that make much of cyberspace relatively vulnerable to |
| unauthorized access. The degree of vulnerability varies from one type of |
| communications system to another. In general, the PSTN is the least vulnerable |
| system, the PDNs are somewhat more vulnerable than the PSTN, the Internet is |
| relatively insecure, and as is widely known, the cellular phone system is the |
| most vulnerable of the four major areas we addressed. |
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| The main vulnerabilities in most communications networks involves procedural, |
| administrative, and human weaknesses, rather than purely technical |
| vulnerabilities of network management, control systems, and hardware, and |
| software. There are technical vulnerabilities--poor system design and specific |
| security flaws in software--but they are mainly exploitable because of the |
| above problems. |
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| Highlights of the study's conclusions include: |
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| o Malicious attacks on most networks and networked systems cannot be completely |
| prevented, now or in the future. More than enough information is publicly |
| available to hackers and other technically-literate people to preclude attempts |
| at prevention of intrusions. |
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| o It is possible individuals or groups could bring down individual systems or |
| related groups of systems, on purpose or by accident. However, security is |
| generally improving as a result of dealing with past threats and challenges to |
| system security. For instance, responses to the most recent serious threat to |
| the Internet, the so-called Internet Worm in 1989, included improved security |
| at sites vulnerable to this sort of worm. |
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| o We found no evidence that the current generation of U.S. hackers is |
| attempting to sabotage entire networks. On the contrary, doing so is |
| inconsistent with the stated ethics and values of the hacker community, which |
| are to explore cyberspace as a purely intellectual exercise without malicious |
| intent or behavior. Some individuals who operate outside this informal ethical |
| framework, however, can and do damage specific systems and occasionally use |
| systems for personal gain or vindictive activities. |
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| o There is some evidence that the newest generations of hackers, may be more |
| motivated by personal gain than the traditional ethic of sheer curiosity. This |
| development could mean that networks and networked systems could become more |
| likely targets for attacks by hardened criminals or governments' intelligence |
| services or their contractors (i.e., employing malicious hackers). This threat |
| does not appear to be significant today but is a possible future scenario. |
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| o The four major areas of vulnerability uncovered in our research have little |
| or nothing to do with specific software vulnerabilities per se. They relate |
| more to the ways in which hackers can gain critical information they need in |
| order to exploit vulnerabilities that exist because of poor systems |
| administration and maintenance, unpatched "holes" in networks and systems, and |
| so on. |
| - The susceptibility of employees of businesses, public organizations, schools, |
| and other institutions to "social engineering" techniques |
| - Lax physical and procedural controls |
| - The widespread availability of non-proprietary and of sensitive and |
| proprietary information on paper about networks and computer systems |
| - The existence of "moles," employees of communications and computer firms and |
| their suppliers who knowingly provide proprietary information to hackers. |
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| o The vulnerabilities caused by shortcomings in software-based access controls |
| and in hardware-related issues constitute significantly lower levels of risk |
| than do the four areas discussed above on more secure networks such as the PSTN |
| and PDNs. However, on the Internet and similar systems, software-based access |
| controls (for instance, password systems) constitute significant problems |
| because of often poor system maintenance and other procedural flaws. |
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| RECOMMENDATIONS |
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| Based on our research, we recommend the following: |
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| 1. Protection of organizational information and communications assets should be |
| improved. Issues here range from those involving overall security systems to |
| training employees and customers about maintenance of security on individual |
| systems, handling and disposition of sensitive printed information, and dealing |
| with "social engineering." |
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| 2. Techniques used to protect physical assets should be improved. For example, |
| doors and gates should be locked properly and sensitive documents and equipment |
| guarded appropriately. |
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| 3. Organizations and their employees should be made aware of the existence and |
| role of moles in facilitating and enabling hacker intrusions, and care taken in |
| hiring and motivating employees with the mole problem in mind. |
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| 4. Software- and hardware-based vulnerabilities should also be addressed as a |
| matter of course in systems design, installation and maintenance. |
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| 5. Organizations concerned with information and communications security should |
| proactively promote educational programs for students and parents about |
| appropriate computer and communications use, personal integrity and ethics, and |
| legitimate career opportunities in the information industry, and reward |
| exemplary skills, proficiency and achievements in programming and ethical |
| hacking. |
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| 6. Laws against malicious hacking should be fairly and justly enforced. |
|
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| SRI's believes that the results of this study will provide useful information |
| to both the operators and users of cyberspace, including the hacker community. |
| We are planning to continue our research in this area during 1993 within the |
| same framework and conditions (i.e., anonymity of all parties and |
| organizations) as we conducted the 1992 research. We invite hackers and others |
| who are interested in participating in this work through face-to-face, |
| telephone or email interviews should contact one of the following members of |
| the SRI project team: |
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| A. J. Bate |
| SRI International |
| Phone: 415 859 2206 |
| Fax: 415 859 3154 |
| Email: aj_bate@qm.sri.com, |
| aj@sri.com |
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| Stuart Hauser |
| SRI International |
| Phone: 415 859 5755 |
| Fax: 415 859 3154 |
| Email: stuart_hauser@qm.sri.com |
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| Tom Mandel |
| SRI International |
| Phone: 415 859 2365 |
| FAX: 415 859 7544 |
| Email: mandel@unix.sri.com |
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