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Carlisle, Pa., Security Firm Aims to Crash Hackers' Parties.(Originated from The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa.)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 1997 by DeKok, David

Mar. 10--The hacker boasted he had broken into a U.S. senator's computer.

"Oh yeah?" said another hacker. "Prove it."

And he did, said Dr. Peter Tippett, president of the National Computer Security Association in Carlisle, a company that specializes in computer-information security, ethics and reliability.

"He provided three-day-old staff-meeting minutes, still in Word Perfect format," said Tippett. "He gave us his private key, which is the equivalent of being the senator. Everywhere the senator could go, this person could go."

NCSA eavesdrops on hacker bulletinboards, the shadowy computer sites where people who specialize in breaking into other people's computers for fun or profit go to boast and brag and share...

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