193 lines
11 KiB
Plaintext
193 lines
11 KiB
Plaintext
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
|
= F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
|
|
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
|
|
|
Journalism at its Finest
|
|
------------------------
|
|
|
|
Bah. I say that to journalism when I read some of the shit they print
|
|
and expect us to believe. In this case I have no doubt that 90% of who
|
|
read the following article believed it. They don't know better, but a few
|
|
of us who know the guys and actually took interest in what the hell really
|
|
happened know that this article is complete bullshit. This was printed in
|
|
the Texas Tech UD which is ditributed campus-wide and is basically free to
|
|
the students. Read it through real quick.
|
|
|
|
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
TWO TECH SOPHOMORES FACING FRAUD CHARGES
|
|
|
|
Two Texas Tech Students face federal and state prosecution and a former Tech
|
|
student faces federal charges for computer fraud after the Secret Service
|
|
confiscated $5,000 of computer equipment and $20,000 of software Dec.15 on
|
|
the second floor of Sneed Hall.
|
|
Tech's Housing and Dining Services requested that one of the suspects
|
|
move out of Sneed Hall because of rule violations detailed in the residence
|
|
hall contract, Housing and Dining Director James Burkhalter said.
|
|
According to the contract, the University reserves the right to cancel
|
|
the contract when a student "disrupts the orderly administration and
|
|
function of the university and any of its activities."
|
|
"Any violation of the Code of Student Conduct and the housing policies
|
|
require that the students face either a residence hall disciplinary
|
|
committee or a university committee," Assistand Director of Housing and
|
|
Dining Services LeQuice Lancaster said. "The hearings determine whether
|
|
the students have behaved in a manner which requires removal from the
|
|
residence hall."
|
|
Secret Service Agent Dave Freriks said, "Computer fraud is going to
|
|
become major target for government law enforcement. Although this was not a
|
|
big raid for the Secret Service, it was signifigant for the west texas area.
|
|
Computer fraud costs software companies about $500 million per year,
|
|
Freriks said. A signifigant portion of computer hacking occurs at
|
|
universities because students have time to work on computers and have access
|
|
to computer networks, he said.
|
|
"This problem is quite prevalent on university campuses." Freriks said.
|
|
"In this case, the students just wanted the games and the progrms and couldn't
|
|
afford them."
|
|
The Secret Service investigation began in May when Tech's academic
|
|
computing services could not use the computer system' disks because they were
|
|
full.
|
|
The two 21-year-old sophomores accessed Tech's mainframe computer by using
|
|
account numbers giving to them by the Tech Library. The mainframe
|
|
electronically transmitted a worldwide computer bulletin board that was used
|
|
to request and receive pirated computer programs.
|
|
The former Tech student used a campus organization's computer access code
|
|
to enter the Tech system, said University News and Publications Assistant
|
|
Director Steve Kauffman.
|
|
The former student confessed to pirating $6,000 worth of software during
|
|
summer 1992. He was expelled in July for misusing the Tech computer system.
|
|
The students also used the computer to contact people in Belguim,
|
|
Australia, and Israel, Freriks said. The students probably have been breaking
|
|
into the computer system since Nov.1991, he said.
|
|
According to "Computers, the Law, and You." an academic Computng Services
|
|
publication, students are expected to use Tech computers ethically. Tech
|
|
reserves the right to monitor all accounts to ensure the software and
|
|
computer equipment are used properly.
|
|
Copying , adapting, and electronically transmitting computer software if
|
|
forbidden unless the purpose of the copies is archival, or the copier receives
|
|
written permission from the copyright holder, the publication states.
|
|
"Many network resources are provided by the U.S. Government," the
|
|
publication states."Abuse of the system thus becomes a federal matter above
|
|
and beyond simple professional ethics."
|
|
|
|
|
|
ARTICLE TITLE: TWO TECH SOPHOMORES FACING FRAUD CHARGES
|
|
ARTICLE AUTHOR: SANDRA PULLEY
|
|
PUBLICATION: UNIVERSITY DAILY
|
|
DATE: THURSDAY, JANURARY 21, 1993
|
|
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Ok. Harmless enough right? Well, one of the two sophomores they
|
|
are talking about sorta wrote an article in response to it. He simply
|
|
points out some of the mistakes of the article and corrects a few facts
|
|
that were wrong. Read his reply.
|
|
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Dear Editor:
|
|
|
|
I am writing in response to a front page article on
|
|
Jan. 21 titled "Two Tech Sophomores Facing Fraud Charges,"
|
|
written by Sandra Pulley. It disturbs me as to where some of
|
|
Ms. Pulley's fact originate from.
|
|
Ms. Pulley says that "the Secret Service confiscated
|
|
$5000 of computer equipment and $20,000 of software Dec. 15
|
|
on the second floor of Sneed Hall." First of all, the raid
|
|
occurred on Monday, December 14th, not the 15th. Also, U.S.
|
|
Department of the Treasury, Secret Service Resident Agent R.
|
|
David Freriks said at the Dec. 15th press conference in the
|
|
Lubbock Federal Building, that a dollar amount could not be
|
|
placed on the confiscated equipment, the value of the
|
|
software found, nor the actual loss to the software
|
|
manufacturers. The Texas Tech Department for Police Services
|
|
released a dollar amount of $3000 for the equipment
|
|
confiscated. No dollar amount has been released for the
|
|
value of the software, nor the loss to the software
|
|
manufactures by any source other than the University Daily in
|
|
the mentioned article. Also, all of the confiscations from
|
|
the room in Sneed Hall were handled by the Texas Tech Police,
|
|
not the Secret Service as stated in the article.
|
|
Farther down in the article Housing and Dining Assistant
|
|
Director LeQuice Lasater is quoted as saying, "`Any violation
|
|
of the Code of Student Conduct and the housing policies
|
|
require [sic] that a student face either a residence hall
|
|
disciplinary hearing committee or a university committee.'"
|
|
The student that was "requested to move out of Sneed Hall"
|
|
was not given a hearing of any kind, so far, and was not
|
|
"requested" to leave; his contract with Housing and Dining
|
|
was terminated and he was given 72 hours to move off campus.
|
|
The article states that the students received account
|
|
numbers from the Tech Library. Granted that the Advanced
|
|
Technology Learning Center (ATLC) is housed below the
|
|
library, but they are an individual entity, not a part of the
|
|
library. There are several other inaccuracies in the said
|
|
article, but since the other mistakes were also made in the
|
|
Associated Press story, according to the Houston Chronicle's
|
|
Special Projects writer, Joe Abernathy, I will not bore you
|
|
with the details.
|
|
I do not mean to attack Sandra Pulley's abilities as a
|
|
news writer, I just want her and the other UD writers to be a
|
|
little more accurate and careful with their facts.
|
|
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Ok. Simple, to the point, and factual. No prob right? Well, the
|
|
UD decided it wouldn't print that for the following reasons according
|
|
to the person who wrote the response to the article.
|
|
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
They refused the letter because I spent too much space "attacking the writer"
|
|
and not enough "dealing with the facts" that were released in the article...
|
|
|
|
Pardon me, but I did not put one bit of personal knowledge, I wrote that
|
|
letter from the AP wire report, the press conference transcript, and the press
|
|
releases from the school... (the same sources a reporter should use!!!) and
|
|
I never used the numbers and facts that the prosecuting attorney have, or
|
|
those that my lawyer and I have estimated... those are for private ears
|
|
only... so I am kinda suspicious that the UD is afraid that I might ruin
|
|
the credibility of an up and coming journalist... looks to me that maybe she
|
|
has no credibility to be ruined...
|
|
|
|
In the journalists defence, she swears up and down that Freriks gave her
|
|
those numbers, but he says he has given no information out, except at the
|
|
press conferenc and the official press releases... so I am still
|
|
wondering....
|
|
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
Ok. You ask why the hell I am writing this file? It is one word
|
|
against the other? Hmm. Don't think so. I think that the reporter just
|
|
needed an article and printed what s/he could to get it in on time and
|
|
didn't bother too much with facts. If that is the case then you need to
|
|
think about other papers. These college reporters are the ones that later
|
|
grow up and write for the bigger papers, the shit your parents read. Now
|
|
if those papers are full of people that don't bother with the facts too much
|
|
then we have a serious problem. The paper wouldn't print the letter to the
|
|
editor. Why? He is right. They are scared of getting a bad name. But why
|
|
does it matter? It is a free paper and students will read it regardless of
|
|
reputation most likely.
|
|
It all begins here. Point of this file is to make you realize that
|
|
newspapers and TV news shows might not be as factual as you think. They are
|
|
just as biased as the people that write for them. Think about what you read
|
|
and hear from them, and do NOT take things for fact all the time.
|
|
|
|
-Dam
|
|
|
|
PS- We are behind you..."sophomores".
|
|
|
|
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
|
= Questions, comments, bitches, ideas, etc : z3mar@ttacs.ttu.edu : FUCK =
|
|
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
|
= Official F.U.C.K. Distribution sites and information =
|
|
= Board Number Other =
|
|
= ----- ------ ----- =
|
|
= Immortal Hate 806.745.8879 World HQ =
|
|
= Ionic Destruction 215.722.0570 Eastern HQ =
|
|
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|
|
= Accounts NOT guaranteed on any F.U.C.K. distribution site. If you are =
|
|
= interested in writing for, or in becoming a distribution site for =
|
|
= F.U.C.K. call Immortal Hate, and apply for an account, or mail Dam =
|
|
= at z3mar@ttacs.ttu.edu or on Immortal Hate. Knowledge is power... =
|
|
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
|