[118588] in Cypherpunks
Re: Unplugged! The biggest hack in history
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcel Popescu)
Sun Oct 3 19:21:38 1999
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 19:03:19 -0400
Message-Id: <033301bf0dfb$7932fbc0$0200a8c0@marcu>
From: "Marcel Popescu" <mdpopescu@geocities.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cypherpunks@openpgp.net>
Reply-To: "Marcel Popescu" <mdpopescu@geocities.com>
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
> A modem takes
> digital data from a computer and translates it to analog signals that can
be
> sent via phone lines. Morris's device would intercept the analog signals
on
> Cantrell's phone line and convert those impulses back to digital signals
so
> the FBI's computers could capture and record each of a suspect's
keystrokes.
Oh boy... journalists are SOOOO stupid...
> In early December 1994, Morris's "analog data-intercept device" finally
> arrived from the FBI's engineering department. It was a $70,000 prototype
> that Morris calls "the magic box."
Er... someone please explain me, I'm lost here - is this a $70,000
MODEM?!?!?
Mark
