News That Affects You - Youth Magazine Staff - December 1983

Youth Magazine Staff

Cracking Down on Computer Crime by Jeff Zhorne - The Earth Gets a Little Older by Lowell Wagner Jr. - 80 Years in the Clouds by Lowell Wagner Jr. - COUNTRY IN FOCUS: Brunei by Tom Delamater - The Children of Divorce by Will Flaman: Until the movie War Games, you may not have heard of hackers, those computer enthusiasts who use their wits to gain unauthorized access to large, sophisticated computers. This movie of last summer involved a 16 year old who used his home computer to break into a secret U.S. Air Force computer by telephone long distance. Since then, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has gotten tough on hackers. In October, they raided the homes of more than a dozen suspected hackers, taking computers and telephone equipment as evidence. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library