The French authorities are extremely exercised over the discovery, in a raid by police on the Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg, that many of France’s most sensitive computer systems had been cracked by the Hamburg hackers, including ones of Thomson, the French subsidiary of Philips, the national centre for scientific research, and CERN in Geneva: […]
The French authorities are extremely exercised over the discovery, in a raid by police on the Chaos Computer Club of Hamburg, that many of France’s most sensitive computer systems had been cracked by the Hamburg hackers, including ones of Thomson, the French subsidiary of Philips, the national centre for scientific research, and CERN in Geneva: a French judge was present during the raid on the club, and is likely to demand that the German authorities impose still penalties; Agence France Presse describes the offence as the most serious case of computer piracy in France, and perhaps the most heinous anywhere.
