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FIDONEWS -- 01 Jul 85 00:00:19 Page 1
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Volume 2, Number 20 1 July 1985
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| - FidoNews - /|oo \ |
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| Fido and FidoNet _`@/_ \ _ |
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Publisher: Fido 107/375
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Chief Procrastinator: Thom Henderson
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Fidonews is published weekly by SEAboard, Fido 107/375. You
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are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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Fidonews. Article submission standards are contained in the
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file FIDONEWS.DOC, available from Fido 107/375.
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Disclaimer or don't-blame-us:
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The contents of the articles contained here are not our
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responsibility, nor do we necessarily agree with them;
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everything here is subject to debate. We publish EVERYTHING
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received.
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Towards Better Communications
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There's a problem common to this sort of communication. All
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you ever see is my words. You don't see any facial
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expressions or body gestures, or even hear a tone of voice.
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The result is that it can often sound very cold and distant,
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even if the author meant to be warm and friendly. Jokes
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tend to sound like hostile insults, and wistful comments
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come across as griping complaints.
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The problem is one of communication. Too much of our daily
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banter is nonvocal or subvocal, and gets squeezed out when
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the words are reduced to the printed page (or the painted
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screen).
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So I propose a solution. I suggest that we extend the
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language, at least when used on bulletin boards, to include
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clues to all the nonverbal signals normally taken for
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granted. My idea works like this:
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When you want to express a subvocal noise or utterance,
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enclose it within a "(*" and a "*)". For example, to
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express a sigh at the end of a wistful comment, type it as
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FIDONEWS -- 01 Jul 85 00:00:21 Page 2
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"(*SIGH*)".
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When you want to express a nonvocal gesture, enclose it
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within a "[*" and a "*]". For example, to indicate a non-
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committal shrug of the shoulders, type it as "[*SHRUG*]".
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If multiple gestures or utterances are to be indicated, they
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can be enclosed in the same "gesture brackets", but should
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be separated by a semicolon.
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Will this system work? [*NOD*] Yes, it should, (*SIGH*) if
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used properly. Will anyone use it? [*SHRUG;FROWN*] Beats
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me.
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(*YAWN*)[*STRETCH*](*BURP*)
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FIDONEWS -- 01 Jul 85 00:00:22 Page 3
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NEWS
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Computer Hacker Convicted of Tapping ARPANET
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By MICHAEL D. HARRIS
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LOS ANGELES (UPI) _ A young home computer whiz was
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convicted of illegally tapping into an international network
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linking research agencies doing work for the Department of
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Defense.
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Ronald M. Austin, 20, a UCLA physics major from Santa
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Monica, was found guilty Tuesday of breaking into 200
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computer files at 14 military, university and private
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research organizations from San Diego to Norway.
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Among the organizations whose computer systems Austin
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penetrated from July to November 1983 were the Rand Corp. a
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Santa Monica think tank; the Naval Research Laboratory in
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Washington; the Norwegian Telecommunication Agency; the UCLA
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Department of Computer Science and the Naval Oceans Systems
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Center in San Diego, prosecutors said.
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Superior Court Judge Gordon Ringer found Austin guilty of
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12 felony counts of malicious access to a computer system at
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the conclusion of a two-day non-jury trial, but acquitted
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him of one count of receiving stolen airline tickets that
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investigators seized from his residence.
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Ringer scheduled sentencing Aug. 23, when he could send
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Austin to prison or place him on probation. Austin's
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attorney said he would appeal the conviction.
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Austin was arrested in November 1983 after he allegedly
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used his Commodore 64 home computer to gain access to the
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Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, or ARPANET, that
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links research organizations under contract to the Defense
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Department.
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When charges were filed, prosecutors said Austin not only
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had access to "very sensitive" data, but also deleted files
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and caused "hundreds of thousands of dollars damage" to the
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computer systems.
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But a Defense Department spokeswoman, Sherry Stetson-
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Mannix, said Austin could not have obtained any classified
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information from any members of the network.
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Prosecutors said Austin broke into the system at UCLA,
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one of several universities in the network, through four
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separate telephone numbers in a scenario similar to that
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depicted in the hit movie "War Games."
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In the film, a teenage hacker enters defense computers on
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a lark and nearly sets off a nuclear war.
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The ARPANET system has since been divided into two
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FIDONEWS -- 01 Jul 85 00:00:24 Page 4
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networks making it more difficult for college researchers to
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exchange information with military users.
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In news interviews following his arrest, Austin admitted
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that he penetrated the system with his home computer, but
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denied any damage was done.
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Other members of the network whose computer systems were
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cracked by Austin included Purdue University; University of
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Wisconsin; Cornell University and UC Berkeley.
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Austin remains free on bail pending sentencing.
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FIDONEWS -- 01 Jul 85 00:00:25 Page 5
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A few FIDONEWS issues back, someone mentioned the idea
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of hooking the Fido network into the USENET network. The
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author correctly stated that the only problem with that
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was getting a USENET host to cooperate. Well, I have been
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able to take care of that problem by getting my company
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(Automatix, Inc. in Billerica, MA) to agree to letting us
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access the USENET articles of interest. Actually, since I
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am the UUCP/USENET/remote mail/telecommunications guru at
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Automatix, I gave myself this permission. It took me
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about 4 hours, and a lot of testing, but I currently have
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our VAX 11/780 running 4.2BSD UNIX sending selected USENET
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newsgroups to my IBM PC running Fido. I use KERMIT to do
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the actual file transferring. Currently, it just sends one
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very large file with the newest news from all of the groups
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batched into it. I am still working on a program to
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unbatch them at the PC end, and place them in separate news
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directories (as is done on the VAX). When that is complete
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I will have to add support for replying to the news
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articles (this will undoubtedly be the hardest part).
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Anyone interested in receiving any of the USENET news
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via FidoNet mail, please let me know what newsgroups you
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are interested in. Currently I only send net.micro.pc and
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net.lang.c, but that can be expanded. If you are not sure
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of what USENET is, but you might be interested in finding
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out, send me a FidoNet message, and I can send you a list
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of all of the available newsgroups, and a short description
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of what USENET is.
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Bob Hartman
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SYSOP: Fido # 10101 in Net # 101 (101/10101)
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