6.805/STS085: Miscellaneous items on Computer Crime

• Bboard raids Postings on raids on bulletin boards this past year, in Italy, Norway, and the US.

• College settles harassment charges stemming from computer conferences. September 21, 1994, New York Times article on case at Santa Rosa College involving moderated computer bulletin boards.

• July 12 Los Angeles Times article (also appearing in the San Jose Mercury News) concerning the discovery of an archive of pornography on a computer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

• Senator Exon's speech in the Senate from July 20, 1994., introducing his amendment to S. 1822. A later version of this amendment was passed by the Senate in July, 1995.

• New Zealand: Possession of Phrack, etc. to be made illegal

• Proposed changes to the Queensland criminal code

• Cooperation by University of Western Ontario in the Homolka-Teale ban

• Philadelphia Inquirer, Monday, May 30, 1994, Cybercops zap computer hackers, crackers and phreaks

• The Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 19, 1994, 2 Men, 3 Teens Arrested for Computer Tampering

• The Independent (London), January 3, 1995, British Boy `Raided US Defence Secrets'. Be sure to also read the follow-up article, from Newsbytes, London Newspaper Runs Old "Superhacker" Story.

• New York Times, January 14, 1995, (Trip Gabriel), Reprogramming a Convicted Hacker

• The New York Times, September 4, 1995, (Peter Lewis), Computers Beware! New Type of Virus Is Loose on the Net

• Newsbytes, September 11, 1995, Hackers Break Into America Online

• Newsbytes, September 14, 1995, Child Porn Ring Using America Online Busted

• The New York Times , September 15, 1995, (Peter Lewis), Company Says Electronic Mail Was Opened to Find Pornography

• The New York Times , September 16, 1995, (Stephen Labaton), Computer Stings Gain Favor As Arrests for Smut Increase

• Washington Post, November 18, 1996, (John Schwartz), Blame Society, Not the Net, for the Evils Lurking Online

• cause for alarm, March 29, 1997, (Rich Burroughs), Kevin Mitnick update

• Wall Street Journal, July 11, 1997, (Jared Sandberg), Accidental hacker exposes Internet's fragility

• Fort Worth Star-Telegram, August 19, 1997, (Leslie Gornstein), In Hacking, for Some, the Punishment May Not Fit the Crime

• PRNewswire, August 25, 1997, The Dark Side of Electronic Commerce

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