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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1980
^Students sabotage computer
United Press International
CHICAGO — A high school stu-
ents’prank that sabotaged a univer-
[sity computer has banks and other
usinesses worried about the secur-
|ity of their own computer systems.
[ "There’s quite a bit of concern, ”
bouglas Ellis, a police investigator,
Mid Tuesday. “If someone of this age
las the ability to get into a computer
system which an institution feels is
relatively secure, that in turn would
make other institutions who have
Compatible systems take a closer look
at that security. ”
I Two youths, both high school
Computer science students, gained
access to the computer at DePaul
University by telephone and shut
i the entire system. It cost De-
$22,252 to purge the system
find and correct the security
bach.
“These kids are exceptionally
bright,” Ellis said of Brian Gatlin, 17,
and a juvenile whose name was not
released.
“Someone said that it couldn’t be
done, and they spent approximately
a year proving that they could do it.
And they did.”
The juniors, in their class at
Fremd High School in northwest
suburban Palatine, were using a
computer terminal hooked up to De-
Paul’s computer system by tele
phone. All they had to do was dial the
computer number on the phone.
During the week of Sept. 17, the
two high school students “broke into
the DePaul University Hewlett
Packard 2000 computer system and
caused a complete shutdown of the
university’s computer,” Ellis said.
“Once they gained access and
were able to log onto the computer,
they altered the programs and cre
ated their own programs.”
Computer courses were shut
down, research data could not be re
trieved, and student tuition pay
ments and account activities were
not picked up in the computer.
The computer was out of operation
Sept. 17-19. After partial services
were restored, authorities said, the
culprits threatened to shut down the
system again.
Both teen-agers were charged
with theft of services. Gatlin was to
appear in Misdemeanor Court Jan.
13. His friend, who is now 17 but was
16 at the time, was scheduled to
appear in Juvenile Court Friday.
But even more important than the
DePaul shutdown, investigators
said, was the question of what the
computer whizzes would do next.
“What was to preclude them from
getting into the First National Bank
and beyond?” asked one investigator
looking into the case.
“What they consider nothing but
child’s mischief could result into a
bigger problem for someone else,”
said Ellis.
He said the youths could be sent
enced to jail terms, but probably will
not receive anything more than su
pervision.
Fremd Assistant Principal Morris
Tharp “assured us they would take
action at the high school. We were
told they would be suspended and
taken out of the computer science
program for the remainder of the
school year,” Ellis said.
feet as junkie, policeman
Teens express conservative
attitudes in national survey
United Press International
NEW YORK — Teenagers bil
led as tomorrow’s leaders swing
far to the right, favoring manda
tory draft registration and oppos
ing the Equal Rights Amend
ment, a national opinion survey
shows.
The majority of the 24,000 top
high school juniors and seniors
participating in the nationwide
survey espoused attitudes of the
type credited with the landslide
election of Ronald Reagan to-the
presidency.
Most said they were against the
Equal Rights Amendment and
legalized abortion, and favored
mandatory draft registration and
nuclear power.
More than two-thirds said they
believe in censorship of movies,
television, books and magazines,
and 94 percent said they had nev
er used drugs, including mari
juana.
The 11th annual survey of teen
leaders, conducted by “Who’s
Who Among American High
School Students” of Northbrook,
Ill., was released Tuesday. It
makes no claim to be scientific.
Eighty-eight percent of the
students surveyed believe “fight
ing inflation should be the new
administration’s top priority,”
and 86 percent said its top foreign
affairs priority should be “getting
the hostages out of Iran. ”
More than half the top teena
gers said they felt business should
be forced to exercise more social
responsibility, even at the cost of
lower profits.
Nearly 60 percent think it’s the
responsibility of business to keep
employees’ wages rising as fast as
inflation, and 68 percent said
business should take the lead in
reducing inflation by limiting
price increases.
If it meant a rise in unemploy
ment, two-thirds would not favor
government policies designed to
reduce inflation.
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United Press International
SAN FRANCISCO — Steve Bos-
Ihard and Luther Brock were
fine Corps buddies and served
Sgether in Vietnam, but back home
Ry found themselves on different
lies in another war.
osshard became a narcotics offic-
and Brock became a junkie. Their
£st meeting was over the barrel of
m.
rock, 33, surrendered to Bos-
Hianl and was charged with being
■ponsible for the drug overdose
death of his girlfriend, Iris Southall.
| "Luther started out as a together
dude,” said Bosshard, 34, who had
contacted Brock and asked him in
|un to surrender on his own. He said
ley met in line at the Oakland In-
tion Center 16 years ago, joined
i, went to basic training together
id shipped out together for
tnam.
[Luther was one of the few guys to
:e private first class out of basic, ”
was “always on top of it,” said
shard.
That is, the officer added, until
y met in a Vietnam village called
jogpatch,” after having not seen
h other for two years.
[it was the first time I’d ever seen
nyone on heroin,” Bosshard said.
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“Luther didn't have it together any
more.”
Again in 1971, Bosshard saw Brock
among a number of other suspects
being booked into City Prison after a
narcotics arrest.
“Luther had gone to hell,” Bos
shard said. “He was getting involved
in armed robberies, dope dealing,
you name it. It was the dope.”
Brock was arrested twice for mur
der. Charges were dropped in one
case, but in 1974 he was sentenced
to four years in prison for man
slaughter.
Bosshard said he met Brock after
he was released and Brock said he
started a shipping company in Long
Beach and was staying away from
drugs.
“I wished him good luck,” Bos
shard said.
However, Brock was recently
arrested in another narcotics raid
along with Miss Southall, who
appeared ill and was sent to a hospit
al. Brock visited her in the hospital
and she died of a drug overdose,
police said. Brock was suspected of
complicity.
Bosshard was able to get in touch
with Brock in Long Beach and told
him over the phone to give himself
up, “Otherwise we were just going to
end up looking at each other over a
gun.”
Brock did not surrender, but
police eventually tracked him to a
residence in San Jose. Two officers
entered the front door and Brock
went out a second-story window in
the back.
Brock landed on his feet and found
himself looking at Bosshard, over the
barrel of a gun.
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