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	Americen executives called it "video terrorism "
but there was no denying a champion of the citiz-
ens had been born. John MacOougall 25, of Flor-
ida, alias Captain Midnight, patched a 4~/z minute
message onto a Home Box Office movie beamed
to American viewers via a Hughes Communications
satel I ite.

	Appropriately, the message came across the
broadcasting on April 27th, 1986, of the movie
The Falcon and the Snowman, which dealt with
security penetration of classifled information by
the Americen Soviet agent Christopher Boyce.

	Captain Midnight's statement was a warning:
his brief message,that home satellite viewers wouid
fight back, sent chills down the spine of every
broadcast executive in the country.

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	OUR S^TEkt'TE uFrwORK I U.~7 ~ '( - ~lCAMS SO^OOl/S~ /^ ~ -
g uNDER AT~AC' ~ j.~ q ~ ~:

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	Massive amounts of sensilve Americen Defense
Department information was carried along the
same commercial satellife networks that MacDou-
gall exposed as vuinerable to computer hackers,
pranksters or satellite saboteurs. MacDougall had
instigated his message from a commercial broad-
cast fac~l~ty - making not only HBO or Hughes ex-
ecut~ves but defence officials even more anxious.

	If MacOougall had chosen to point his antenna
at a Pentagan satellite ~nstead, thelAmerican mon-
-itoring of those channels might have assumed that
the Soviets were about to fire their bombs and
were taking the first step by jamming US ability to
retaliate.

via Mother Jones Ocl. '86

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	A meeting of Federei and
Sta'e attorneys-general in
March will outline new laws
wh~ch will render computer
hacking an offence. Their
,im will be to stop 'poople
interfering with data bases.

	At present it is an offence
to physically damege a com-
pL'T~r system bot tampering
with the information inside a
computer's memory has not
been covered by law. A work.
ing party has been operation

al since Novennber to look into
computer crimes/law. This
was done after a re,oort by
the Tasmaniar. Law Reform
Commission was presented to
a meeting of Attorneys-Gener-
al. A recent case in Perth in-
volved Donald McLead who
pFogrammed the Australian
Bureau of Statistics computer
to dump its memory store

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He was fined $200 after ad-
mitting his 'prank' to Federal
Police stating tbat he knew
there was a back up disc.

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	In Western A~str3iia some ~øø~.~Ä3~.~4~Ä
mystery surrounds French ur ~ l~t ~ ~ ~ ?~\fillt
anium ieech mining The =~ ~ at the end of October. Qu-
French energy giant, Total has :~ ~ b eensland bro~ght in some of the
been extracting yellowcake from ]'1~1~ i)= toughest drug laws in the West-

	a vast uranium deposit near 1, \~ ,1-- ern World.
	Onslow using the environwenta-	/~k~l l, -
	lly destructive method of solut-	8~J=~/ 2	~Under the Drugs Misuse Act
	ion mining. The French hsve	~ ~1 	~ possess~on of two grams of her.
	exported tonnes of yellow cake	~ )' 	~o~n or coca~ne or 0.004 of a gram ",
	from their Manyingee prospect.	>~J\\	of L5D carries a mandatory life~
	Uranium "exploration" licence	~) 	~sentence.
	in W.A. apparently means tests,	~f~ 1
	trials, yellow cake productior'	~ t	~The extraordinarY draconian L
	and export. But such severe	~t 	~legislation stipulates the same
	damage has been inflicted by sol.	~ ~`	sentence for trafficking and gives
	ution mining that State Parli-	_~ ~.	pot~ce w~de powers to tap private

	ament is icoking at legislation ~. ~ -		phones. j
	for environmental protection by { - ~_

banning solution mining/~7 l." ~, People in possession of 500
For more info CONTACT: Shy- ~ ~ ~ ;~gramS of cannabis cen be jailed
ama Peeble Box 889 KaLaoorlie t7~ J ~ ~ ~^ for life.
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