ae _Castléflit News October 9, 1985 Computer column By MIKE FUHRMANN The Canadian Press Bill Landreth was 19 when the FBI entered his house, seized some high-tech equipment and charged him with the use ‘of of kilometres away The California youth was devoted to “hacking” — the practice of breaking into other people's computers for the fun of it. A year and a half later, he gives his side of the! story in his book Out of the Inner Circle. With all the media attention given to teenage whiz-kids invading distant computers, hacking has become something of a glamorous activity. The motion picture War Games — in which a youngster nearly starts. ja third world war after breaking into a top secret U.S. é — made the hobby seem even more But Landreth says it's mostly a lot of hard work. ince buying his first Radio Shack model at the age of 14, Landreth, who calls himself “the Cracker,” was hooked on learning as much as he could about computers, often sitting in front of the. screen for six-hour sessions. “GAME OF WITS’ And although he calls hacking “a game of wits,” Roaaty Salon 5 Brian L. Brown CERTIFIED _ GENERAL TACCOUNTANS THE ‘HAIR ANNEX 365-3744 1241 - 3rd St., Castlegar 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 SOLIGO, KOIDE & JOHN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS _ 615 Columbia Ave. others take a dimmer view of this form of Some operators of large computer systems, Landreth notes, are not favorably disposed to people like him. Small wonder, “One of the common things to do, once you seize control of the system operator's terminal, is to change his own password and log him out. “When the system operator is one who is known to be hostile, hackers take particular delight in pulling this prank.” G Discovering passwords is one of the hacker's main goals, since without them he can do little computer exploration. But typical computer users at large companies sometimes unwittingly assist the invader by . Frequent choices include love, sex, secret, ‘hello, kill, dollar, dead, God, computer, even the word password itself. One of Landreth’s more audacious capers involved a “decoy trick,” in which phone calls to the target computer were forwarded to a hacker's equipment. Legitimate users proceeded to type in their passwords, which to the delight of the hacker appeared on his screen. At other times ingenuity took a different form. One hacker “friend, pretending to be conducting a school project, handed .out, es to in a (Upstairs) Castlegar Phone 365-7745 Henry John, B.Sc. C.A. Resident Partner -MOROSO, MARKIN & BLAIN CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS 241 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-7287 target company’s lobby. The answers yielded numerous passwords, such 2s employees’ first names, which the hacker used to penetrate the firm's computer. PRIZE KNOWLEDGE The morality of such behavior is not one of Landreth’s central preoccupations. However, he distin- guishes between destructive hacking and.a r hi As evidence of his own “honorable” motives, he describes how he once broke into a bank's computer (which gave him access with the password BANK) and stumbled across electronic transactions worth millions of dollars. But “the system itself didn’t have anything that) was new to me, so I was quickly bored with it.” Another computer he tapped into turned out to belong to a large U.S. newspaper. 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CASTLEGAR NEWS Commercial Printing 365-7266 i) Upholste RON’S CUSTOM UPHOLSTERY & INTERIORS COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL *¢ Complete Automotive Interiors _* Antiques _* Van Accessories * Retail Fabrics Stanley Humphries junior field hockey team won this week while its |= senior team lost..: BI a winner The Castlegar News captured four awards in the B.C id Yukon 3 Community Newspapers’ Association annual competition... A7 The six winning numbers in last night's Lotto 6-49 draw were 3, 6, 13, 18, 31 and 40. The bonus number was-10. The $500,000 winning number in Friday's Provincial lottery draw is 1941871. _The child taste test Columnist John Char- ters. puts his children’s tale The Wishing Gate to the ‘real’ test... B3 £4 i at . Cremation Urns and Plaques és, whether your business nome starts with Aor with Z. Phone 365-3222 Landreth leaves. out his victims’ names and often specific information on how the stunts were performed. This reticence is one of the.most unsatisfying aspects of the book. With the hard facts missing, how can the reader tell whether the Cracker's capers aren't more fiction than fact? EASY TO READ He takes care to explain a lot of the techhicat material for non-technical readers. At the same time the book, capably written with the help of . Howard Rheingold, is laced with the hacker's colorful: jargon: trapdoor software, trojan horses, logic bombs and worm programs. Landreth ends with some advice to operators of| large systems, giving them his opinion of PLUMBING & HEATING LTD. 1008 Columbia Ave., Castlegar, B.C. 365 PR 365-52 BUsINE z “13 tor you!— RATES ARE ATTRACTIVE TOO?! 10 | FOR FULL DETAILS Contractors © Furnaces General Metal Work Air Conditioning Humidifiers Flashing” Service Work KINNAIRD TRANSFER Concrete Gravel security devices on’the market. He adds that he considers-his three years’ probation (the maximum sentence was five years in prison) “very fair" and plans a college career in, what else, computer science. (Out of the Inner Circle, by Bill Landreth. Microsoft Press; 230 pages. $14.95) Children ea TORONTO (CP) — More than 300 children in the east end of Toronto have had their blood tested for lead during the city’s health department annual lead testing clinic. “Young children are espec- ially at risk as they pick up lead from playing in dust and dirt, and transfer it from fingers to mouth,” said a spokesman for the depart- To encourage children to wash their hands, novelty soaps have been given to children undergoing the lead test. Possible sources of lead most common in the environ- ment are play areas -with bare soil and dust in the home. 4 Our Action Ad Phone Numbér is 365-2212 SSS SPECTRUM V VINYL RE REPAIR 7 & UPHOLSTERY Material for “Do-it-Yourselfers” NOW LOCATED IN RASPBERRY VILLAGE Ph. 365-8336 Call today! 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OPTOMETRIST No.2 - 615 Columbia, Cestlegor 365-: ~C&MHEATING jerving the eniire ——| Guaranteed * CERTIFIED FIREHALL FUN . . . Sstyrdoy was Busy at T Contlegar firehalls as 'y in PI jive-progra: i his coupon and receives certificate along with (from Castlégar News UNDAY CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1985 (OL. 38, No. 82 WEATHERCAST cast today with rain this ‘morning, then cloudy we near 10°. Cloudy tonight and ear O°. wi with showers. Highs near 11°. SS 50 Cents 2 Sections (A & B) FOR FINAL APPROVAL Transit system goes to cabinet By RON NORMAN Editor Castlegar’s proposed transit system “has gone to the provincial cabinet for approval, the final step before the system is put into place. And Mayor Audrey Moore indicated this» week that Human Resources Minister Grace McCarthy has all but promised to support the system in cabinet. Moore. said’ McCarthy was “very “supportive” of the transit system when the two spoke during McCarthy's visit to Castlegar Monday. “We do not want to step into some- thing willy nilly,” Vanderpol said. Voykin added that he approves of the system in principle provided there can be adjustments later to the prop- osed bus fares and cost sharing. “T'm still not satisfied with the way it’s set up,” he said. Mayor Audrey Moore noted that the fares and cost sharing are still only “preliminary.” mie approved by cabinet, the new transit system could be in Place b by next August. ~ B.C. Transit plans to use a single 30-foot Orion bus on the route. The bus - —=The—bus--service—has—also—been——will_be able to_hold 60. 30. approved in principle by the Central Kootenay regional board. However, Area I director John Voy- kin and Area J director Martin Van- t they want to see giving final approval. The three routes proposed would begin at Castleaird Plaza and extend north to Crescent Street; south to 37th Street with extensions on some trips to Blueberry Creek; and east to Selkirk College and residential areas in Rob- son, Raspberry, Brilliant and the Rose- dale Road area. Za B.C. Transit director Ron: Drolet says the prime market for the bus service will be college students, the elderly, shoppers and secondary school students who would use‘the bus as an alternative to school buses. Drolet says once the single bus is in place, B.C. Transit will look at adding more. huses. on.the need and. 777 oe enya ERNE Tr seated and another 30 standing. The bus would operate from 7 a.m. - 6 p.m. weekdays and from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturdays. There-would be no service on Sundays and statutory hol- idayss available funding. Total cost for the service is expected to be between $115,000 and $150,000 a year. B. ©. 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Call 365-2885 650 - 23rd St. Castlegar Welding & Backhoe ROCK BLUFF FLYERS 7 PHOTOCOPYING 800 Highway Dr. Plvoberry Creek Crook aces S. Dickie Fer Te fi 2 BACKHOE SERVICE on rates and details of advertising in the Busi. Di — we tt wid 1 deg _bosements. septic systems Gores nes, ere PHONE 2601 - 9th Ave., Castlegar J mbt see ra 75i2 366 Boker St., Nelson 352-5152 Ph. 365-2565 365-2383 ae 365-5210 HELPS BEAT LONELINESS Editor's note: October is Unitéd Way month and this is the first in a series-of articles oh Castlegar groups and organizations which’ benefit from local ‘United Way fundraising. By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer Being different in a society that too often encourages conforsaity can be a lonely experience. 1 and ped fall often been forcibly separated from society. UNITED WAY REPORT They have been institutionalized and prevented from enjoying the company of non-handicapped people and from fully participating in life. Castlegar Citizen Advocacy — one of 13 United Way agencies in Castlegar — helps remove that loneliness and and the brings the non-handicapped together. : “The main objective is to match handicapped peop! with non-handicapped people on a one-to-one basis, Citizen Advocacy president Dolores Aberdeen says: Castlegar who can give these guys a ride.” “en ane OT Os HERE'S WHO'S RUNNING tlegar resident who is volunteering her time to help the handicapped. She is currently helping a young man who is both mentally and physically handicapped. She explains it all started one cold winter night when she was leaving the Castlegar arena where her son had been playing hockey. “Two handicapped guys who go to the hockey games were waiting outside fora taxi,” she says. “I thought, this is ridiculous. There's lots of people in Terhune did. Now, as a Citizen Advocacy volunteer, she is teaching. one young man life skills such as how to cook, budget money and make a shopping list. She also helps him set up doctor's appointments. “I intervene in a lot of ways — any type of problems (he has) dealing with society.” And of course, she’ drives him places around town. In a letter to-the United Way, Citizen Advocacy describes itself as “working quietly behind the scenes, ensuring that (the handicapped) have the opportunity to realize their potential and grow as individuals. “To that end, the United Way provides us with a financial base to maintain our physical efforts.” Aberdeen is one of five people actively involved in Castl Citizen A Usually, she says, Citizen Advocacy has a paid co-ordinator, but now the organization is without one and the five are running the organization as a committee until a new co-ordinator is hired. The funds Citizen Advocacy receives from: the United Way go toward paying the co-ordinator's salary — ' ‘continued on page A3 shoal board are opén.this election By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer There's a definite bite to the air. It's autumn in the West Kootenay and that means two things — time to put on your hat or throw it into the ring. It's municipal election time again, and several Castlegar council and school board seats are up for grabs, as wellas five Regional District of Central Armed robber given two years 'By CasNews Staff Mark Meredith was _— sentenced ‘Thursday to a total of two years less a day for the robbery last spring at the Mohawk gas station on Columbia Avenue. Meredith pleaded guilty in Castlegar provincial court to robbery and was sentenced to a jail term of one year less a day. ith’ also pleaded guilty to Anti-abortionist convi¢ted NELSON (CP) — An avowed anti- abortionist who stole a suction machine used for performing abortions at a Nelson hospital was given a suspended sentence Friday and placed on pro- bation for 18 months. faction. - At his trial, eight-year-old machine could not be proved to the county court jury's satis- Demers admitted he went:to the hospital, took the machine would cause immediate and serious harm to another person. Demers said : : he believes fetuses are people and that abortions aren't necessary. But Judge John C. Cowan ruled Jim Demers, 28, who was convicted of public mischief and theft under $200, also was ordered to pay Kootenay Lake District Hospital -$2,025.75 to replace the suction machine, ‘and to perform 100 hours of community work. >. Demers was i with theft over $20Q, but the value of the . to hjs shop and ‘destroyed its motor by drilling a hole in it. He then took the machine back to the hospital and tele- phoned the police, His defence was based on a section of the Criminal Code that says persons may break the law if'they believe an offence is about to be committed which -irrelevant any debate on the abortion issue and on the question of whether abortion certificates should be granted by the hospital's therapeutic abortion committee. Demers said after the trial he does not regret his action, and will likely appeal the conviction. possession of a weapon and was sentenced to..one year in jail to be served consecutively. In addition, he pleaded guilty to two counts of breaking and entering and was sentenced to six months on each Castlegar area. In the council battle, the highlight promises to be a fight for the mayor's chair between incumbent Mayor Aud- rey Moore and. veteran alderman Bob MacBain. Moore indicated to the Castlegar News earlier that she intends to run again and MacBain announced his can- didacy Oct. 4. Four aldermanic:seats are open this year — MacBain's, and those held by Marilyn. Mathieson, who moved to Vancouver, Carl Henne and Albert Calderbank. All terms except Mathieson's are for two-years. Mathieson's vacant seat is a one-year term. Calderbank said he is “still toying with the idea” of running again. “They won't ‘take (nomination). pa- pers until the 18th anyway,” he said. “There's still lots of time.” Henne could not be reached for com- ment. Four trustee positions on the Castle- — two city seats currently held by board chairman Doreen Smecher and Linda Krull, the Area I seat held by Lovette Nichvolodoff and the Area J seat held by, George Anutooshkin. Area I cavers Pass Creek, Tarrys, Thrums, Shoreacres and Glade. Area J includes Robson, Ootischenia and Blue- berry. Neither Nichvolodoff. nor Smecher, who is out of town, was available for comment. Krull seems anxious to defend her trusteeship, saying Thursday that her nomination papers are “all ready to go. She said she thinks incial gov- ernment funding for education will again be the hot issue of the election. “T'd like to see educatign continue as well as it can with the fubding allotted from the government,” Krull said. Anutooshkin said he is still unde- cided about whether or not to run a continued on poge A3 > Inquiry says left turn caused crash . By CasNews Stat A coroner's inquiry into an August car accident in Castlegar that killed one man and sent five others to hospital has ded a left turn was count to be served with the other terms. Meredith was arrested less than 24 hours after a masked robber used.a rifle to hold up an at the the cause of the mishap. At approximately 11:45 p:m. on Aug. baa! ar driven by Mike Markin, 68, of Mohawk station at 1 a.m. on March 6. Castlegar RCMP arrested Meredith as he was driving a white pick-up truck along Columbia Avenue that afternoon. Police recovered the money stolen in the robbery — less than $100 — and also a sawed-off shotgun from Mere- dith’s truck. was south on maar 3A when it turned left at the golf course intersection into the path of a northbound car driven by Mike Glen- dinning, 33, of Castlegar. Markin died later in Kelowna Hos- pital where he was taken after the accident. “It was found that the vehicle driven by the late Mike Markin was travelling south and prematurely made a left hand turn out of his lane into the path of the northbound vehicle driven by Mike Glendinning,” says a report from Castlegar coroner, Paul Ogiow. Oglow recommends in the report “that the highways department install .cat’s-eye studs in the vicinity of this intersection in order to better define turning lanes during the night Also injured in the collision were Glendinning, Mable Markin, Harry Markin, Lena Markin and Vera Rezan-_ soff.