[109401] in Cypherpunks
Re: Gently nurturing the misguided hacker with baseball bats
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Hallam-Baker)
Mon Mar 22 22:43:23 1999
From: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
To: "Robert Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>, <dcsb@ai.mit.edu>,
<cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>, <cryptography@c2.net>,
"Digital Bearer Settlement List" <dbs@philodox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:24:40 -0500
Reply-To: "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
> "We have actually gotten on a plane and visited the physical
> location where the attacks began. We've broken in, stolen the
> computers and left a note: 'See how it feels?' " On one occasion,
> he says: "We had to resort to baseball bats. That's what these
> punks will understand. Then word gets around, and we're left
> alone. That's all we want, to be left alone."
I know of a much much earlier incident. Back in the 1980s the
Kaos computer club was starting in Hamburg and targeted the
local DESY research lab.
I don't think the baseball bat was used in anger but one was
certainly employed by one of the American students to reinforce
a message during a somewhat heated discussion in the Alte Khat.
After that episode they started learing how to hack over networks.
That said I can't see it being very likely in the corporate world.
Phill
