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CRYPT NEWSLETTER 40 December 1996 - January 1997 Editor: Urnst Kouch (George Smith, Ph.D.) Contributing Editor: Stephen Poole INTERNET: 70743.1711@compuserve.com crypt@sun.soci.niu.edu Who reads Crypt Newsletter The great majority of Crypt Newsletter readers do it on company time. While there are accesses at all hours, heaviest usage and downloading of current issues occurs during U.S. business hours, beginning at around 7:30 EST and continuing to 4:40 Pacific time. Readers of Crypt Newsletter log in monthly from organizations like Lucent Technologies, Loral, Lockheed, MITRE Corporation, NASA-JPL, Electronic Data Systems, Intel, Digital, ...

Excerpt from CRYPT NEWSLETTER 35 January-February 1996 Editor: Urnst Kouch (George Smith, Ph.D.) Media Critic: Mr. Badger (Andy Lopez) INTERNET: 70743.1711@compuserve.com Urnst.Kouch@comsec.org crypt@sun.soci.niu.edu COMPUSERVE: 70743,1711 SEX, LIES & COMPUTER TAPE: ON THE TRAIL OF KEVIN MITNICK IN TSUTOMU SHIMOMURA'S PAEAN TO HIMSELF AND JON LITTMAN'S "THE FUGITIVE GAME" At least two volumes will catch your eye this month as US publishers gear up for the Kevin Mitnick-money chase: Tsutomu Shimomura's "Takedown," an auto-hagiography of the author that only incidentally deals with the dark-side hacker, and writer John Littm...

CRYPT NEWSLETTER 32 June - July 1995 Editor: Urnst Kouch (George Smith, Ph.D.) Media Critic: Mr. Badger (Andy Lopez) INTERNET: 70743.1711@compuserve.com Urnst.Kouch@comsec.org crypt@sun.soci.niu.edu COMPUSERVE: 70743,1711 Boys and girls, Crypt 32 is a toothsome one for your mid-Summer reading pleasure. We kick-off with the usual shredding of generic quacks and hacks in the mainstream news services, this time in connection with the Rimm report's alleged expose of 'net filth. Mr. Badger - our own would-be Spengler - returns to report on flunking a course in computer science, what can be learned from Kaiser Bill this month and his us...

CRYPT NEWSLETTER 18 Aug-Sept 1993 Editor: Urnst Kouch (George Smith, Ph.D.) Media Critic: Mr. Badger (Andy Lopez) INTERNET: ukouch@delphi.com COMPUSERVE: 70743,1711 [The Crypt Newsletter is a monthly electronic magazine distributed free to approximately 12,000 readers on the Internet. It features media handling of issues dealing with computers and society, news in science and technology, and satire.] IN THIS ISSUE The OBIT computer . . . FEATURE: the National Reconnaissance Office - still secret after all these years . . . Computer Culture and Media Images . . . Mr. Badger's fiendish IQ Test: Do you suffer from "Information Highway". ...