Forwarded From: Kjell Wooding <kwoodingat_private> http://www.codetalker.com/ http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9805/25/hacking_sentence.ap/ Programmer sentenced for military computer intrusion May 25, 1998 Web posted at: 11:59 AM EDT (1159 GMT) DAYTON, Ohio (AP)- A computer programmer was sentenced to six months at a halfway house for gaining access to a military computer that tracks Air Force aircraft and missile systems. Steven Liu, 24, was also fined $5,000 Friday after pleading guilty to exceeding authorized access to a computer. Liu, a Chinese national who worked for a military contractor in Dayton, downloaded passwords from a $148 million database at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He said he accidentally discovered the password file and used it to try to find his job-performance evaluation. "It's not like innocent negligence," U.S. Magistrate Michael Merz told Liu. "You knew how important the system was and should have known how important it was to maintain its security." The database is not classified. It contains maintenance and failure-rate information about weapons systems and is used to make funding decisions. Air Force investigators said Liu neither destroyed nor altered information and didn't create a way to enter the system once passwords were changed. But they said they couldn't be sure he didn't supply information to others or that others didn't access the system. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
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