[ih] Security issues are not discussed in this memo [was: A revolution...]

[Greg Skinner]

On May 14, 2026, at 3:35 PM, Barbara Denny via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Not sure what you were thinking when you said serious and which people. 
> I imagine many people aren't familiar with this law case (Note John Markoff reporting in all the original articles)
> https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/08/us/hacker-indicted-on-spy-charges.html
> Then there is this long running case  around the same timeframe
> https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/hackstock/950217hacker-case-underscores.html
> Vint is quoted in the link above.
> John Markoff also covered the Morris Worm
> This link is more of a retrospective of that event.
> https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/08/06/1988-the-internet-comes-down-with-a-virus/
> This article also claims the Markoff piece on the Morris worm is the first time the Internet is mentioned in the NY Times.
> barbara

A few months before the Morris worm incident, Geoff Goodfellow posted an article to the RISKS digest written by John Markoff and Andrew Pollack that mentioned an investigation of Kevin Poulsen for phone tampering. [1] (Kevin Poulsen was an SRI employee. [2])

--gregbo

[1] https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/7/26#subj4
[2] https://computerhistory.org/profile/kevin-poulsen/