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be -1, 02/26/2002 07:32 PM bic -l, To: cc: Subject: thoughts about calling the hacker tomorrow? WorldCom did... here's the excerpt from the article | sent earlier. WorldCom worked actively with “the kid” to fix the wholes...he also contact them through SecurityFocus.com. ! think @ techie to techie call would be fine, he seems pretty helpful from this article. And working with him would be a way te minimize the situation like WorldCom did below. let me know what you want to do... http://online.securityfocus.com/news/296 Lamo's Adventures in WorldCom - The Helpful Hacker “Vint Cerf recently did a public service announcement in which, generally speaking, the message was it would be really great if the hacker community went back to its roots,” says WorldCom spokesperson Jennifer Baker. “I guess that from @ general industry standpoint, Adrian seems to be doing just that... At that end of the day, what he did wasn't destructive or harmful.” Over a month after the Kinkos visit, Lamo has come clean with WorldCom, and the company is grateful. The hacker contacted the communications leviathan through SecurityFocus on Friday. Saturday morning, just as he crashed after ‘ an all-night hacking session on “an unrelated project," his cell phone rang. There were three WorldCom managers on the line, wondering of it was true that Lamo had cracked their global corporate intranet, and what they needed to do to fix it. “| made it clear very quickly that all | was interested in doing was make it as positive an experience as possible for everyone," says Lamo. True to his word, the hacker would spend the rest of the weekend on conference calls and in email, bleary brieting the company on his months of illicit exploration. On Tuesday, the WorldCom turned to Lamo to give them a final bill of health. After a scan of their address space, he pronounced that WorldCom had successfully closed the proxy hole. “What we discovered when we investigated Adrian's issues, was that there was a router with an inappropriate filter on it," says Baker, “In the end it was a human error, and we're really happy that he brought it to our attention... We really FBI(19-cv-1495)-97 -2 -2