In the book ," The Cuckoo's Eggs" the Narrator finds a 75- cent error in their payment procedure. He comes to find out that the 75-cent error comes out to be a hacker. he continues to look over code for a couple of days and to his knowledge he doesn't know anything important on their network of coding. But he does know their is very essential information in the Livermore lab. This all takes place in uc berkeley. The narrator use to work in the livermore lab, so he knows what's at stake. But there is almost no way to hack into it because they have isolated computers. He starts to get worried because the hacker comes up more and more for longer periods of time. Later on he comes to find out that the hacker is a super user now. the Narrator is wondering how?why?who? he asks his co-workers to let him borrow their printers, so he could print out the activity of the coding for a day. After a full days of coding printed he finds that the hacker is entering in through a ten line piece of code that is easily replaceable with a code to let him in. He informs his boss about this and his boss yells at him to bring hard evidence of it. For the next couple weeks he lived in his office for a week. Waiting day after day after day, he finds that he only goes on for brief amount of time so he doesn't get caught. He asks his colleagues to borrow their printers again and they said that they can't afford anymore ink. He had to sit at his computer for a couple more days at wait. He was waiting so he could track him to where his is. But he comes across a problem. He needs a search warrant to track him further. The narrator goes back and informs his boss with the evidence and this time he believes him and says what do we do next, how do we continue. He tells his boss that he needs a search warrant. His boss calls the FBI office and they say that is way to low key for a warrant. Then his boss calls the Oakland police office and talks to the chief and the chief wants to help so he gets them a search warrant. The narrator has tracked him to a couple blocks from the school. web security and why its important
Monday, April 28, 2014
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In the book ," The Cuckoo's Eggs" the Narrator finds a 75- cent error in their payment procedure. He comes to find out that the 75-cent error comes out to be a hacker. he continues to look over code for a couple of days and to his knowledge he doesn't know anything important on their network of coding. But he does know their is very essential information in the Livermore lab. This all takes place in uc berkeley. The narrator use to work in the livermore lab, so he knows what's at stake. But there is almost no way to hack into it because they have isolated computers. He starts to get worried because the hacker comes up more and more for longer periods of time. Later on he comes to find out that the hacker is a super user now. the Narrator is wondering how?why?who? he asks his co-workers to let him borrow their printers, so he could print out the activity of the coding for a day. After a full days of coding printed he finds that the hacker is entering in through a ten line piece of code that is easily replaceable with a code to let him in. He informs his boss about this and his boss yells at him to bring hard evidence of it. For the next couple weeks he lived in his office for a week. Waiting day after day after day, he finds that he only goes on for brief amount of time so he doesn't get caught. He asks his colleagues to borrow their printers again and they said that they can't afford anymore ink. He had to sit at his computer for a couple more days at wait. He was waiting so he could track him to where his is. But he comes across a problem. He needs a search warrant to track him further. The narrator goes back and informs his boss with the evidence and this time he believes him and says what do we do next, how do we continue. He tells his boss that he needs a search warrant. His boss calls the FBI office and they say that is way to low key for a warrant. Then his boss calls the Oakland police office and talks to the chief and the chief wants to help so he gets them a search warrant. The narrator has tracked him to a couple blocks from the school. web security and why its important
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