[270] in Best-of-Security
BoS: Re: LACC: Underground extract: System X
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (proff@suburbia.net)
Wed Jun 25 15:29:56 1997
From: proff@suburbia.net
In-Reply-To: <970625105600_-1763805773@emout17.mail.aol.com> from "Tomkaiser@aol.com" at "Jun 25, 97 10:56:02 am"
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 03:01:46 +1000 (EST)
Cc: lacc@suburbia.net
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>
> In a message dated 97-06-25 02:15:13 EDT, you write:
>
> << Extracted from Chapter 10 - "Anthrax - The Outsider"
>
> Note: System X's name has been changed for legal reasons.
>
> Anyone aware of what system (and no I don't mean just a "sooper secret
> government computer")?
> Any documentation from the news stories that could illuminate the accuracy of
> the writer and hacker.
>
> Thaks in advance,
> Tom Kaiser
For what it is worth, your's truely (LACC/BoS moderator) was the
researcher for _Underground_ (reader's will be pleased to know LACC
even gets a mention in the bibliography) I've recycled below some
private email I sent to another reader.
[..]
Your belief in the security of milnet and ddn is misplaced. Bomb
proof does not imply anything about a network's strength in resisting
computer mediated attacks. I was the researcher for "Underground"
and the entire book was merticuously documented. In relation to
the "System X" chapter, that meant intercept logs, numerous
interviews, police transcripts, court records, internal military
publications, "deep-throat confirmation", technical data etc.
Never heard of DIMSS (Defence Switched Network Intergrated Management
Support System)?
There is a description of a prototype DIMMS based system in the
October 1994 issue of Chips (a US Navy communications/technology
journal). Of course the book proper has all the gory detail (the
extract is brutally edited down) :)
Cheers,
Julian.
--
Prof. Julian Assange |If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people
|together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks
proff@iq.org |and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless
proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu |immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery
