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Asian School of Cyber Laws
Illustration 10
Kevin Poulson was a skilled hacker
who rigged radio contests and
burglarized telephone-switching
offices and hacked into the
telephone network in order to
determine whose phone was being
tapped and to install his own phone
tapping devices.
Poulson had encrypted files
documenting everything from the
phone tapping he had discovered to
the dossiers he had compiled about
his enemies. The files had been
encrypted several times using the
Data Encryption Standard.
A US Department of Energy
supercomputer took several months
to find the key, at a cost of millions
of dollars. The result yielded nearly
ten thousand pages of evidence.
Illustration 11
The mother of a 15-year old boy
filed a complaint against an adult
who had sold her son US $ 1000
worth of hardware and software for
one dollar.
The man had also given the boy
lewd pictures on floppy disks.
The man subsequently mailed the
boy pornographic material on floppy
disks and sent pornographic files
over the Internet.
When the accused was arrested it
was found out that he had
encrypted a directory on the system
using PGP. The police were never
able to decrypt the files.
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