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Air Service. As so often happens when hacker think they are about to uncover secret knowledge, the actual data files seemed relatively trivial, the sort of judgements that could be made by a bright sixth former who read posh newspapers and thoughtful weekly magazines. University facilities In complete contrast to computers that are used to store and present data are those where the value is to deliver processing power to the outside world. Paramount among these are those installed in universities and research institutes. Although hackers frequently acquire phone numbers to enter such machines, what you can do once you are there varies enormously. There are usually tiers and banks of passwords, each allowing only limited access to the range of services. It takes considerable knowledge of the machine's operating system to break through from one to another and indeed, in some cases, the operating system is so thoroughly embedded in the mainframe's hardware architecture that the substantial modifications necessary to permit a hacker to roam free can only be done from a few designated terminals, or by having physical access to the machine. However, the hobbyist bulletin board system quite often provides passwords giving access to games and the ability to write and run programs in exotic languages--my own first hands--on experience of Unix came in exactly this way. There are hackers! Given the nature of hacking, it is not surprising that some of the earliest japes occurred on computers owned by universities. Way back in the 1970s, MIT was the location of the famous 'Cookie Monster', inspired by a character in the then-popular Rowan & Martin Laugh-in television show. As someone worked away at their terminal, the word 'cookie' would appear across their screen, at first slowly wiping out the user's work. Unless the user moved quickly, things started to speed up and the machine would flash urgently: "Cookie, cookie, give me a cookie". The whole screen would pulse with this message until, after a while, the hacking program relented and the 'Monster' would clear the screen, leaving the message: "I didn't want a cookie anyway." It would then disappear into the computer until it snared another unsuspecting user. You could save yourself from the Monster by typing the word "Cookie", to which it replied "Thank you" and then vanished. In another US case, this time in 1980, two kids in Chicago, calling themselves System Cruncher and Vladimir, entered the computer at DePaul University and caused a system crash which cost $22,000 to fix. They were prosecuted, given probation and were then made a movie offer. In the UK, many important university and research institution computers have been linked together on a special data network called SERCNET. SERC is the Science and Engineering Research Council. |
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