[45797] in Cypherpunks
Re: Navy hacked by Air Force?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sten Drescher)
Fri Dec 22 12:28:14 1995
To: fc@all.net
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, iw@all.net, risks@csl.sri.com
Reply-To: Sten Drescher <dreschs@austnsc.tandem.com>
From: Sten Drescher <stend@cris.com>
Date: 22 Dec 1995 10:49:07 -0600
In-Reply-To: fc@all.net's message of Fri, 22 Dec 1995 07:02:22 -0500 (EST)
On Cypherpunks, fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen) said:
FBC> Following is the actual text extracted from iw@all.net - I doubt if
FBC> the U.S. DoD will want to release all the details, but we can ask!
Strange, Dr Fred, this isn't the 'actual text' I saw quoted in
RISKS Digest - did you 'fix' it so that it was a bit more credible?
Dr Fred's paragraph:
FBC> 100% wrong - he was an insider, he had a great deal of assitance,
FBC> he had cryptographic devices and keys, and he had special insider
FBC> knowledge. If he was an Air Force captain, he could not have been
FBC> all that young. Whizzkids are usually considered teenagers.
FBC> Anyone know of any teenaged AF captains these days?
RISKS Digest's paragraph:
RISKS> 100% wrong - he was an insider, he had a great deal of
RISKS> assistance, he had cryptographic devices and keys, and he had
RISKS> special insider knowledge. If he was a Navy captain, he could
RISKS> not have been all that young. Whizzkids are usually considered
RISKS> teenagers. Anyone know of any teenaged Navy captains?
Has anyone seen the REAL IW article, so we can tell what was
really said? The age difference between an AF captain and a Navy
captain is enough that one could be considered a 'whizzkid' in the
military, while the other could not.
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