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realhackhistory, 8 hours ago

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realhackhistory, 1 hour ago

27 emails in the last 24 hours now.

realhackhistory, 1 day ago

@drakenblackknight I'm still of the opinion that some of that was his own hype that eventually bit him in the ass, but the media, and in particular some reporters selling books, did go out of their way to turn him into a boogeyman. Him and Poulsen both bore the brunt of changing attitudes towards hackers in the US as time went on.

realhackhistory, 2 days ago

"A computer virus is the product of a creative mind- a different type of creativity than Japan usually produces," said Yuichi Murano, an
executive of Nihon Sun Microsystems.
"Those are the kinds of talents we need more of." Nihon Sun is the Japanese subsidiary of a Silicon Valley company, Sun Microsystems, whose machines are both the favorite tools and the favorite targets of many hackers.

realhackhistory, 2 days ago

Japan hardly lacks software talent. By some estimates, there are more than a half-million programmers, but they seem remarkably well behaved.

Last year, the national police recorded only 15 instances of computer crime, most of them trivial. But this year may be a different story.

realhackhistory, 2 days ago

@reconbot I think about this all the time. I'd be writing books.

realhackhistory, 3 days ago

Pair it with this.

realhackhistory, 3 days ago

This document is from 1991 and references a memo from the Cincinnati police department who in turn appear to have been contacted by Columbus Ohio's Organized Crime Bureau over something to do with @2600.

realhackhistory, 3 days ago

"Enclosed for NY is one copy of a memorandum from Sgt. Cincinnati Police Department, CI, Chio, telephone (513) 352-2551, dated 5/22/91, concerning the captioned matter.

Sgt. advised that the captioned magazine addressed to the Organized Crime Bureau (OCB), 600 W. Spring St., Columbus, Ohio 43215, reportedly provided information concerning possible
IOC matters."

realhackhistory, 3 days ago

I looked at 2600 issues from 1991, the only content I could think of that might have triggered an organized crime investigative unit (IOC = ?) is this, from summer of 1991 (which fits with the timeline.

realhackhistory, 3 days ago

Handwritten note on the document reads:

"For information only until such time specific allegations made Re: 2600 Magazine"

realhackhistory, 9 days ago

Apparently the US Secret Service had become aware of Singh's hacking activities that touched on US government, military and corporate systems and there was some attempt to lure him to the US for arrest before the UK authorities eventually stepped in.

realhackhistory, 9 days ago

From The Sydney Morning Herald, 7th November, 1988:

"US Secret Service officials have flown to London to interview Singh in the presence of senior Scotland Yard detectives... A spokesman for the US Justice Department said Singh could face wire fraud or even treason charges"

realhackhistory, 9 days ago

It seems that in the end no prosecutions in the UK or the US resulted, as hacking related criminal legislation was not on the books in the UK when Edward was arrested.

From the New Hacker's Handbook, 1989 edition:

realhackhistory, 9 days ago

@ukscone it sounds from the interview above like he had an addiction to hacking, glad he was able to move past that as he sounds like a real driven and smart guy.

realhackhistory, 9 days ago

@ukscone I knew someone busted in a similar situation, right down to trespassing at a university to use their computers to hack, knew he was on thin ice too but it was a compulsion.