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Subject:    [ISN] Programmer sentenced for military computer intrusion
From:       mea culpa <jericho () dimensional ! com>
Date:       1998-05-30 1:34:06
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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.



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