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(fwd) Going to a Computer Conference? Don't use your real name!
excerpted from:
RISKS-LIST: RISKS-FORUM Digest Tuesday 5 July 1994 Volume 16 : Issue 19
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Date: Wed, 4 May 1994 01:54:33 GMT
From: [email protected] (Steve L. Rhoades)
Subject: Going to a Computer Conference? Don't use your real name!
[Excerpted from MicroTimes April 18, 1994 Issue #122]
At the fourth Computers, Freedom, & Privacy conference in Chicago last month,
the spotlight was on the growing conflict between the rights of individuals
and the role of government in the digital age. A luckless Whitehouse House
representative and a lawyer for the NSA tried to convince a varied and
skeptical crowd that government control of cryptography was somehow a Good
Thing;
Meanwhile, in their search for fugitive criminals Kevin Mitnick and
wooden-legged "Agent Steal", the FBI erroneously arrested one unfortunate
attendee whose name happened to resemble one of Mitnick's aliases and
interrogated two others, including an ex-Marine and CIA veteran Robert David
Steele of Open Sources. ...
Steve L. Rhoades, :30 Second Street, Mt. Wilson, Calif 91023
(818) 794-6004 [email protected]
[An article by John Markoff on Mitnick appeared on the
front page of The New York Times, July 4, 1994. PGN]
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- paul