Post by StuartG on Jul 18, 2011 20:34:19 GMT 1
Robert Schifreen
"He was arrested in 1985 for hacking into a British Telecom computer and accessing the Telecom Gold emails of Prince Philip. As there was no specific law against hacking at this time, in June 1985 he became (together with a codefendant) the first person to be charged under section 1 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 with forgery which deceived a non-human target.[1] When the case came to trial in April 1986, Schifreen was said to have used an unprotected top level account identified as "2222222222" with a password of "1234"; Schifreen was said to have admitted obtaining user passwords but denied doing so for personal gain and said that his activities prompted Prestel to increase security.[2] On 24 April 1986 Schifreen was convicted on six counts of forgery and fined £750.[3]"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schifreen
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Hackers who accessed the royal corgis New Scientist 1 May 1986
Google books
books.google.co.uk/books?id=z2PJPvVQeuwC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=hacking+the+Prestel+account+of+Prince+Philip&source=bl&ots=FNcFkF08Ov&sig=N0oiyz1-od-eATEQjd7NhDgZ17U&hl=en&ei=1n8kTqX0H9GEhQejuZzqBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
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The Internet: Where
Did IT All Go Wrong?
Robert Schifreen*
www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-2/schifreen.asp
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'George Galloway Interviews Robert Schifreen On Wikileaks'
wn.com/George_Galloway_interviews_Robert_Schifreen_on_Wikileaks
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Peter Sommer/Hugo Cornwall
www.pmsommer.net/page10.html
"He was arrested in 1985 for hacking into a British Telecom computer and accessing the Telecom Gold emails of Prince Philip. As there was no specific law against hacking at this time, in June 1985 he became (together with a codefendant) the first person to be charged under section 1 of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981 with forgery which deceived a non-human target.[1] When the case came to trial in April 1986, Schifreen was said to have used an unprotected top level account identified as "2222222222" with a password of "1234"; Schifreen was said to have admitted obtaining user passwords but denied doing so for personal gain and said that his activities prompted Prestel to increase security.[2] On 24 April 1986 Schifreen was convicted on six counts of forgery and fined £750.[3]"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schifreen
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Hackers who accessed the royal corgis New Scientist 1 May 1986
Google books
books.google.co.uk/books?id=z2PJPvVQeuwC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=hacking+the+Prestel+account+of+Prince+Philip&source=bl&ots=FNcFkF08Ov&sig=N0oiyz1-od-eATEQjd7NhDgZ17U&hl=en&ei=1n8kTqX0H9GEhQejuZzqBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
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The Internet: Where
Did IT All Go Wrong?
Robert Schifreen*
www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/vol5-2/schifreen.asp
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'George Galloway Interviews Robert Schifreen On Wikileaks'
wn.com/George_Galloway_interviews_Robert_Schifreen_on_Wikileaks
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Peter Sommer/Hugo Cornwall
www.pmsommer.net/page10.html