Beware: hackers at play; computer capers raise disturbing new questions about security and privacy

Hacking was just a game, they thought. They called themselves the 414s— after the city's telephone area code—as a parody of Milwaukee's tough, inner-city youth gangs that take their names from the city's numbered streets. Like marauding teen-agers, they went joy riding along the silen...

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Published in:Newsweek 1983-09, Vol.102 (10), p.42
Main Author: Marbach, William D
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Access control (Computers)
Computer access control
computer crimes
Computer networks
Corporations
Data processing
Electronic data processing
Investigations
Methods
Minicomputers
Safety and security measures
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Summary:Hacking was just a game, they thought. They called themselves the 414s— after the city's telephone area code—as a parody of Milwaukee's tough, inner-city youth gangs that take their names from the city's numbered streets. Like marauding teen-agers, they went joy riding along the silent telecommunications highways that link thousands of large, sophisticated computers in banks, universities, corporations and government installations all across the country.
ISSN:0028-9604
1069-840X