[46418] in Cypherpunks
Re: New Mitnick Book
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Wed Jan 3 20:28:16 1996
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 20:14:56 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: pcw@access.digex.net
Responding to msg by pcw@access.digex.net (Peter Wayner) on
Wed, 3 Jan 7:39 PM
Here's Littman on immunity for Shimomura (describing telco
tracking Mitnick):
Shimomura's brought along his own hacker's scanning rig.
It's pretty basic, just an Oki 900 cellular phone and a
hardware interface to his tiny HP Palmtop. One of
Shimomura's friends -- who happens to be under federal
indictment for illegal hacking -- cooked up the interface
and helped write the software.
Shimomura likes his computer-controlled cellular phone, but
its use for tracking is limited. Its main purpose is to
lock on a call and eavesdrop. It is illegal to use it to
eavesdrop on calls. That's why Shimomura needed immunity
from prosecution when he demonstrated his Oki scanner
before Congress a couple of years ago. (p. 6)
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