| [ Guru ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): miri (<- 남자!) 날 짜 (Date): 1995년09월28일(목) 00시32분21초 KDT 제 목(Title): 씨크릿 써비스의 크래커 추적.. By CLIFFORD J. LEVY c.1995 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK - It was a classic sting operation, the kind of undercover gambit that has nabbed bad guys for decades: federal agents disguised as big-time thieves set up shop and put the word out on the street that they were eager for business. Soon shifty characters were stopping by, officials said, peddling stolen goods that were worth millions of dollars. But as the agents revealed Monday, the meeting place for this subterfuge was not some shady storefront. It was a computer bulletin board that the U.S. Secret Service had rigged together to troll for people who are illegally trafficking in the codes that program cellular phones. The ``computer service,'' which led to the arrests of at least six suspected hackers and the possibility of more, is the latest indication that law enforcement agencies are being forced to try novel strategies to keep up with the startling growth in computer-assisted crime. Cellular-phone fraud alone cost companies $482 million last year, the cellular-phone industry estimates. According to the criminal complaint in the case, a Secret Service agent used the Internet, the global computer network, to announce that the bulletin board catered to those involved in breaking into computers and in cellular-phone and credit-card fraud. ``People all over the country responded,'' said Peter A. Cavicchia 2nd, the special agent in charge of the Newark office of the Secret Service, which ran the investigation. ``They felt they could do this with impunity.'' The Secret Service, which is the Federal agency charged with going after cellular phone and credit card fraud, has long been known to monitor commercial computer on-line services like Prodigy and America Online, as well as smaller, private computer bulletin boards, for illegal activities. But officials said this case represented the first time that the Secret Service had created an entirely new computer bulletin board, which is basically a system that links different computer users, all |