Computer History
Lecture Series 2000
"Early Computer Crime"
Thursday, March 23, 2000
Computing, in particular
the Internet, by its very nature has increased opportunities for the
commission of crime, an ancient phenomenon now placed into a new context
ripe for exploitation. In this presentation, you will hear the inside
stories of those who have been at the heart of identifying, reporting
on, and protecting against computer crime. This is a rare opportunity
to understand the personalities and hear the voices of people who
are exploring the balance between freedom and security in our technology-driven
world.
Panelists (listed alphabetically):
Whitfield
Diffie: Crime, What Crime?
Sun Microsystems
John
Markoff: Twenty Years of Trying to Get Off the Computer Crime Beat
The New York Times
Peter
Neumann: What Really Happening in
Computer Crime?
SRI
International
. Cliff
Stoll: Stalking the Wily Hacker...
Looking back, With a Grin
(see below
for complete abstracts and bios)
6:00pm, Thursday, March 23,
2000
NASA
Ames Research Center
Auditorium, Building 201,
Moffett Field
Reception following at
Computer History Museum
visible storage warehouse
(Bldg 126)
Please RSVP for reservations
by MONDAY 3/20.
Wendy-Ann
Francis (francis@computerhistory.org)
Tel: (650) 604-2579
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all lecture attendees must
register to be admitted to
NASA Ames Research Center.
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We look forward to seeing
you on the 23rd!
Complete
Abstracts and Bios
(listed alphabetically by
speaker)
"Crime, What Crime?"
Whitfield
Diffie
Distinguished Engineer
Sun Microsystems
Many uses of computers are
beneficial to some people and
injurious to others.
What makes some of these uses crimes?
Perhaps it is the political
power of either the injured
parties or those who stand
to profit from investigating,
prosecuting, or protecting
us against the "crimes."
Whitfield Diffie, who is best
known for his 1975 discovery of the concept of public key cryptography,
has occupied the position of Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems
since 1991. Prior to this, he was Manager of Secure Systems Research
at Northern Telecom, a position he had held since 1978. Diffie is
a graduate in mathematics of MIT and Dr. sc. techn. (hc) of the ETH in
Zurich. Since 1993, Diffie has worked largely on public policy aspects
of cryptography. His position --- in opposition to limitations on
the business and personal use of cryptography --- has been the subject
of articles in the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Channel, Equinox TV
in Britain, and the Japanese TV network NHK. Diffie is the author,
jointly with Susan Landau, of the book _Privacy on the Line_.
"Kevin and Me"
John
Markoff
The New York Times
My twenty years of reporting
on computer crime and trying to avoid the computer crime beat at a variety
of newspapers.
John Markoff is based in San
Francisco as West Coast Correspondent for the New York Times where he covers
Silicon Valley, computers and information technologies. Before coming to
the Times in 1988 he covered Silicon Valley for the San Francisco Examiner
beginning in 1985. He has also been a writer at Infoworld and in 1984 he
was West Coast Technical editor for Byte Magazine. He is the co-author
with Katie Hafner of "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier"
(1991) and with Lenny Siegel of the "The High Cost of High Tech" (1985).
In January of 1996 Hyperion published "Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture
of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw," which he coauthored with Tsutomu
Shimomura. He was named as one of Upside Magazine's Digital Elite 100 in
1996, 1997 and 1998.
"What's Really Happening
In Computer Crime?"
Peter
Neumann
Principal Scientist, Computer
Science Lab
SRI International
I will address the evolution
of computer security and of computer related crime, as they relate to each
other, and what is needed in the future.
Peter G. Neumann is a Principal
Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI (where he has been
since 1971), concerned with computer system survivability, security, reliability,
human safety, and high assurance. He is the author of _Computer-Related
Risks), Moderator of the ACM Risks Forum (comp.risks), Chairman of the
ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, and Associate Editor of the
CACM for the Inside Risks column. He founded and for 19 years edited
the ACM SIGSOFT _Software Engineering Notes_. He is now a member of the
U.S. General Accounting Office Executive Council on Information Management
and Technology. See http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/
for Senate and House testimonies, reports, RISKS, papers, slides, etc.
Neumann is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the ACM, and the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (of which he is also a member of
the Computer Society). He has received the ACM Outstanding Contribution
Award for 1992, the first SRI Exceptional Performance Award for Leadership
in Community Service in 1992, the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer
Award in 1996, the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award in 1997, and
the CPSR Norbert Wiener Award for in October 1997, for "deep commitment
to the socially responsible use of computing technology."
"Stalking the Wily Hacker
... Looking Back with a Grin"
Cliff
Stoll
Someone breaks into your computer.
What do you do? Slam the door? Call the police? Ignore the problem?
A decade and a half ago, I
detected a hacker in my computer. We caught the guy, who turned out to
be a German, spying for the Soviet KGB. It was amongst the first
of the known cybercrimes.
What techniques did my adversary
use to crack into computers? Which ones still work? Where are the holes
in our systems? How do you trace someone across the worldwide computer
networks? Who was willing to help -- and who wasn't? What's changed
since then?
Lots has changed since then:
the Arpanet morphed into the Internet. The FBI, which then took six
months to respond to a network crime, can now issue a press release within
hours.
2400 baud modems, which were
then a rarity, have now become a rarity. And high technology, then considered
a great way to make money, is now seen as a great way to make money.
Come hear Stalking the Wily
Hacker ... A fun time is
guaranteed for all.
Cliff Stoll graduated from
Buffalo Public School #61 with a blue star for good attendence. Later,
he printed T-shirts, repaired pinball machines, and received a PhD in planetary
science from the University of Arizona (over in Tucson, where the telescopes
grow). He's worked at Space Telescope Institute, Purple Mountain
Observatory in Nanjing, China, Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson,
and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii. His last known job was at Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics.
Cliff has written three books:
The Cuckoo's Egg, Silicon Snake Oil, and High Tech Heretic. Right now,
he's a stay-at-home Dad who occasionally makes single-sided, boundary-free,
zero-volume glass Klein Bottles.
