Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-31 Thread Mouse
> [...] industrial espionage [...] > One wonders how much goes undetected. > Most of those getting caught are in upper management. Us lowly > grunts don't seem to get involved as often or maybe there are those > among us that are just that much better at covering our tracks. Or, when a low-level

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-31 Thread Ken Seefried
From: Mouse >> [...] industrial espionage [...] >> One wonders how much goes undetected. >> Most of those getting caught are in upper management. Us lowly >> grunts don't seem to get involved as often or maybe there are those >> among us that are just that much

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-30 Thread dwight
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: The KGB, the Computer, and Me Hi Anybody who has not seen this film (The KGB, the Computer, and Me) its worth a look. 1980's DEC systems everywhere, LSI terminals, HP kit, Tape drives in action and apart from the Mac no Windows anywhe

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-29 Thread Ray Arachelian
On 12/28/2015 04:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: > > I now expect to get a long list of weveseenits. Indeed! I remember seeing this on live TV many years ago. You can find it on youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKxaq1FTac The book is really good too:

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-29 Thread Will Senn
On 12/29/15 10:14 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 12/29/2015 06:24 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote: On 12/28/2015 04:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: I now expect to get a long list of weveseenits. Indeed! I remember seeing this on live TV many years ago. You can find it on youtube now:

RE: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-29 Thread CuriousMarc
characters. Marc -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ray Arachelian Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 4:24 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me On 12/28/2015 04:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wr

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-29 Thread Jon Elson
On 12/29/2015 06:24 PM, Ray Arachelian wrote: On 12/28/2015 04:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: I now expect to get a long list of weveseenits. Indeed! I remember seeing this on live TV many years ago. You can find it on youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcKxaq1FTac The book is really

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-29 Thread Adam Sampson
Jon Elson writes: > Of course, I was interested in the topic, but Cliff Stoll writes very > well. it reads like a thriller. There's also the German film "23", which tells the same story from the hackers' end (although with less accuracy in terms of the computers used).

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-29 Thread Jacob Goense
On December 29 08:35 Brent Hilpert wrote: In 1985 I was setting up our new email system at CERN, and the email system had a security flaw that allowed the users' mail access passwords to be seen. This in of itself wasn't too big deal as there was little a hacker could do with it (only get access

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread jwsmobile
On 12/28/2015 1:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi Anybody who has not seen this film (The KGB, the Computer, and Me) its worth a look. 1980's DEC systems everywhere, LSI terminals, HP kit, Tape drives in action and apart from the Mac no Windows anywhere. I think LBL must have bought one

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread Rod Smallwood
On 28/12/2015 10:06, jwsmobile wrote: On 12/28/2015 1:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi Anybody who has not seen this film (The KGB, the Computer, and Me) its worth a look. 1980's DEC systems everywhere, LSI terminals, HP kit, Tape drives in action and apart from the Mac no Windows anywhere

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread jwsmobile
On 12/28/2015 1:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi Ron Funny I googled and found a final exam at a university which was posted for 2004. I guess I'd have missed one question because they said that it was Roy (not Ron) Vivier at Tymnet. I'd have gotten his name right, where the instructor

Stoll (Was: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread Fred Cisin
I have not seen that, but have the Stoll Book, Cuckoo's Egg. A friend of mine is central to this, and is in the book (though I've not seen him for 30 years...) On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Rod Smallwood wrote: Stoll has a bit of a wesite.. He's an astronomer just like he said. Also he also says

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread ethan
Stoll has a bit of a wesite.. He's an astronomer just like he said. Also he also says stay at home dad. (Wife is lawyer I guess) Did anybody spot the visual reference to a well known rock star also a Phd astronomer. Stoll bought some sort of glassware in bulk and sells it, but he didn't have

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread Rod Smallwood
On 28/12/2015 16:27, Fred Cisin wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Rod Smallwood wrote: I love this guy! I bet he has a time travelling DeLorean in his garage At one point, he mentioned wanting to create a punched card driven webserver. For a while, he had a show on MSNBC. He wanted to shoot an

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi > Anybody who has not seen this film (The KGB, the Computer, and Me) > its worth a look. 1980's DEC systems everywhere, LSI terminals, HP kit, > Tape drives in action and apart from

Re: Stoll (Was: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread Ian S. King
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: > I have not seen that, but have the Stoll Book, Cuckoo's Egg. A friend of >>> mine is central to this, and is in the book (though I've not seen him for >>> 30 years...) >>> >> >> On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Rod Smallwood wrote: >

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread Rod Smallwood
On 28/12/2015 15:43, et...@757.org wrote: Stoll has a bit of a wesite.. He's an astronomer just like he said. Also he also says stay at home dad. (Wife is lawyer I guess) Did anybody spot the visual reference to a well known rock star also a Phd astronomer. Stoll bought some sort of

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread Fred Cisin
On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Rod Smallwood wrote: I love this guy! I bet he has a time travelling DeLorean in his garage At one point, he mentioned wanting to create a punched card driven webserver. For a while, he had a show on MSNBC. He wanted to shoot an episode in my office, due to the piles of

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread steve shumaker
On 12/28/2015 2:06 AM, jwsmobile wrote: On 12/28/2015 1:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi Anybody who has not seen this film (The KGB, the Computer, and Me) its worth a look. 1980's DEC systems everywhere, LSI terminals, HP kit, Tape drives in action and apart from the Mac no Windows anywhere

Re: The KGB, the Computer, and Me

2015-12-28 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Dec-28, at 6:10 PM, steve shumaker wrote: > On 12/28/2015 2:06 AM, jwsmobile wrote: >> >> On 12/28/2015 1:45 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: >>> Hi >>> Anybody who has not seen this film (The KGB, the Computer, and Me) >>> its worth a look. 1980's DEC