Oregon/Intel vs Randal Schwartz: Press Reports

These are in approximate chronological order, newest first. Exception: Items from the same publication are clustered.

(except where noted, these are all by permission - please be gentle to copyrights)

• History of the Net From Usenet, December 1996.

• Brave New Web. Article by Charles C. Mann. Boston Magazine, vol. 88, no. 4, April 1996, pp. 32-36.

• Articles from Matrix News:
  • Randal Schwartz and the Law, Vol. 9, No. 7, 1, July 1999. pdf
  • More About the Randal Schwartz Case, Vol. 6, no. 4, April 1996.
  • System Administration as a Criminal Activity or, the Strange Case of Randal Schwartz, Vol. 5, no. 9, September 1995.

• Northwest Reports: Hacker or Helper? KPTV, Channel 12, Portland, Oregon. Airdate: March 24, 1996. (watch this space for a transcript)

• Online Advocates Support Hacker. Article by Michael Shapiro in Web Review (Net Daily News), February 2-9, 1996

• Editorial in Unix Review, February 1996
  Letter to editor (as submitted) from Stephen Friedl, in rebuttal to the above. Page 7 of the May 1996 issue.

• Column by Peter Lewis in The New York Times, November 27, 1995, page D5 (permission to include here was requested in December 1995, re-requested in February. No replies.)

• Articles in Dr. Dobb's Journal and companions.
  • Absence of Malice. Editorial by Jonathan Erickson. March 1996 (Vol. 21, Issue 3, whole number 245).
    Letter to the editor (as submitted) by Thomas J. Tintera, Washington County, OR, District Attorney's Office, in reply to above. August 1996. (Vol. 21, Issue 8, whole number 250). (See also the Police reports.)
  • Fair use excerpt with comments from The Perl of Wizdom by Ray Valdes, Dr. Dobb's Developer Update, vol 2, no 3, December 1995.

• Articles from the San Jose Mercury News
  • Intel password for consultant was 'don't. (October 23, 1995) (corrections to errors of fact and ambiguities)
  • Hacker avoids prison (September 12, 1995)
  • Programmer convicted of hacking at Intel (July 27, 1995)

• Pirate pas très clair. by Phillippe Blanchard. Digipresse, Edition du 25 au 1 octobre 1995. En français.

• Articles on TechWeb (CMP Publications)
  • Intel Hacker Convicted -- Programmer illegally opened up chip giant's corporate network to the Internet. Communications Week: July 31, 1995
  • Intel And Oregon Say No To 'Crack'. Information Week: October 2, 1995
  • Guarding the enterprise network is everything. Communications Week: August 7, 1995
  • Case Goes Off To the Races. Communications Week: July 31, 1995

• Article in Intel Leads, September 1995 or earlier
  • (request to Intel for permission to reprint was not acknowledged)

• NewsLine Amateur Radio News: Hacker Convicted [link dead 20010408]. September 15, 1995.

• The Oregonian (permission to reprint July articles was refused to Mark Morrissey)
  • 9/20/95, D5, "Intel case brings probation", FMO
  • 7/26/95, D1, "Computer expert convicted in hacking", FMO. USENET commentary.
  • 7/22/95, B1, "Intel consultant on defense", Holly Danks
  • 7/21/95, B1, "Computer Crime has arrived", Cristine Gonzalez, a general piece on computer crime which mentions the Schwartz trial
  • 7/20/95(?), "State rests in computer consultant's trial", FMO
  • 7/16/95, Business section, "Intel workers testify against consultant", FMO
  • 7/12/95, D1, "Trial over Intel intruder takes aim at high-tech's intricacies", FMO

    FMO is article author Fiona M Ortiz.