Date: 28 Jul 92 16:54:14 EDT
From: Gordon Meyer <
[email protected]>
Subject: File 6--'Pirate' is PC?
"Texas and the Pirates"
With all the publicity computer pirates have been getting lately -
what with teenagers nonchalantly tapping into credit-card databases
from their bedrooms and bands of foreign technophiles looking for
vulnerable spots in computer networks that require high-level
clearance to access - security firms are going all out to market
their expertise to the nervous masses.
{ info about the June Computer Security Institute conference deleted.}
The two-day conference includes seminars on topics such as "Securing
the Simple Network Management Protocol" and "Protecting Against LAN
Viruses." To the astute security observer, however, the title of
one session - "Hackers and Your Network" - would certainly cause
a gasp. As all politically correct technophiles know, hackers are
legitimate computer enthusiasts; "computer pirates," by contrast,
are those involved in technothievery.
Excerpted from the June 1, 1992 issue of
INFORMATION WEEK, who should know better.
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