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4 All were juveniles at the time, and cannot be identified other than by their handles.

5 ‘Degaussing’ means changing the magnetic polarity on disks or tapes to wipe data. In general ‘degaussing’ units are very powerful electro-magnets that will wipe magnetic tapes – like audio and video cassettes, as well as computer diskettes – in a matter of seconds. Hackers use the devices to destroy evidence during a raid.

6 Convictions were also obtained in the cases of other major members of her ring. All were juveniles at the time, and details of their convictions cannot be published.

7 The curse of the unverifiable hangs over computerized bank fraud even more heavily than it does over credit card fraud. According to bankers there has never been a successful hacker raid on their funds; according to anecdotal evidence from hackers, banks are regularly being looted. The truth is probably that it has happened and will continue to happen, but is probably not as prevalent as hackers would like to think.

8 X.25 is an international technical standard describing details of the networks’ data transfer operation.

7 The Illuminati Conspiracy

1 Similar data and information systems were set up in the 1980s in the UK (Prestel), The Netherlands (Viditel) and France (Minitel). These systems had the common aim of bringing computers into people’s homes to provide them with on-line information and shopping services.

2 The students’ real names are known to the authors. They have, however, requested anonymity.

3 Most computer programs contain errors or bugs of one sort or another. It is estimated that programmers are likely to introduce, inadvertently, about fifty errors in every thousand lines of code.

4 The ‘orange book’ is the popular name for TCSEC, Trusted System Criteria, which specify security controls for information stored on computer.

5 Later, it would be established that although early versions of VMS had been fully tested, later ones hadn’t. It was these newer versions

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