Re: Gently nurturing the misguided hacker with baseball bats

["Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam@ai.mit.edu>]

> "We have actually gotten on a plane and visited the physical
> location where the attacks began. We've broken in, stolen the
> computers and left a note:  'See how it feels?' " On one occasion,
> he says: "We had to resort to baseball bats. That's what these
> punks will understand. Then word gets around, and we're left
> alone. That's all we want, to be left alone."

I know of a much much earlier incident. Back in the 1980s the
Kaos computer club was starting in Hamburg and targeted the
local DESY research lab.

I don't think the baseball bat was used in anger but one was 
certainly employed by one of the American students to reinforce 
a message during a somewhat heated discussion in the Alte Khat.

After that episode they started learing how to hack over networks.


That said I can't see it being very likely in the corporate world.

        Phill


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