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Date: 2000-04-01
Hacker, Konfident, Krimineller-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Gründe Ausschlag gebend: Wie es einem selbst erklärten "ethical hacker" ergehen kann, der sich mit den gesetzlich ermächtigten Behörden einläßt. post/scrypt: Heute, 18.30 im fünften Teil der 3sat-Serie "Big Brother" müßte eigentlich ein dem p.t Publico nicht völlig unbekannter Depeschen/diener zu sehen sein. http://www.3sat.de/nano/serien/05433/index.html -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- relayed by Fred Cohen <[email protected]> via [email protected] -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Max Ray Butler seemed to be at the top of his game. For two years, the computer expert was a confidential source for an elite FBI computer crime squad, helping to ferret out scofflaws on the Internet. Butler, also knog wn as Max Vision, was also a self-described ``ethical hacker'' from the Silicon Valley who boasted that he could test the security of any computer system by penetrating it. ... Butler, 27, of Berkeley appeared in federal court in San Jose yesterday on a 15-count federal indictment charging him with hacking into computers used by the University of California at Berkeley, national laboratories, federal departments, air force bases across the country and a NASA flight center. ... The indictment, handed down March 15, said Butler caused ``reckless damage'' as a result of intrusions in May 1998. Butler was also charged with possession, with intent to defraud, of 477 passwords belonging to customers of a Santa Clara- based Internet service provider. ... ``Sources are often very close to criminal activity, and sometimes they cross the line,'' said Special Agent George Grotz, an FBI spokesman in San Francisco. Grotz declined to say how Butler became an FBI informant and whether he was a federal source at the time of the alleged crimes. Grotz said Butler is no longer associated with the agency. Friends of the suspect told the Associated Press that Butler was caught possibly violating the law several years ago and began working with the FBI to avoid charges. Seth Alves, 27, told the news agency that Butler was unfairly targeted after refusing to comply with an FBI request. ... Butler grew up in Idaho and lived with his family in Washington, where authorities said he has a 1997 misdemeanor conviction for attempted trafficking of stolen property. He developed a proficiency with computers, eventually attracting the attention of the FBI's Computer Crime Squad, which used him as a confidential informant. An FBI search warrant affidavit said Butler was ``well known'' to squad members and ``has provided useful and timely information on computer crimes in the past.'' In 1997, Butler started a company known as Max Vision in Mountain View, specializing in ``penetration testing'' and ``ethical hacking'' procedures in which he would simulate for clients how a hacker would penetrate their computer systems, according to the company Web site. ... It was also from that apartment, according to the FBI, that Butler hacked into computers by using a computer software vulnerability known as a buffer overflow, which sends commands into a system that ordinarily would not be allowed. Butler also allegedly invaded computers used by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Vern Paxson, a computer scientist at the lab, noticed an online intruder conducting unauthorized scans of laboratory and UC Berkeley computers in May 1998 and used a monitoring device that later helped identify the source of the intrusions. .... Full story http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/03/24/MN57003.DTL -.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 2000-04-01 comments to [email protected] subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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