[43464] in Cypherpunks
THE FRONT PAGE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Wed Nov 15 22:53:18 1995
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 95 22:47:10 -0500
From: "Phillip M. Hallam-Baker" <hallam@w3.org>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
I've edited this down, for fair use reasons, you can get the idea...=20
Worth subscribing to this paper BTW.
> The Electronic Telegraph Thursday 16 November 1995 The Front Page
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> [The Front Page]
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> 'Black Baron' computer virus writer jailed for 18 months
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> By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent
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> Devils in disguise that preyed on computers
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> [Image] THE man who wrote computer viruses which could cause millions=
of
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> pounds of damage, was jailed for 18 months yesterday.
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> Christopher Pile, who called himself the Black Baron, not only spread h=
is own
> viruses, Exeter Crown Court was told, but also distributed across the w=
orld his
> program which let other hackers disguise their own viruses.
> The viruses have made the "Black Baron" notorious among British compani=
es.
> Microprose estimated it lost up to =A3500,000 and used more than 480 st=
aff hours
> checking more than a million files. The computer firm Apricot had to sh=
ut down
> and check many of its machines. It found that 22 out of 60 had been inf=
ected by
> Pathogen.
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