The International Subversives

police and the Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNET) to trace them.

A Deakin University administrator had written to Huston, AARNET technical manager, about hacker attacks on uni- versity systems. Huston had forwarded a copy of the letter to Peter Elford, who assisted Huston in managing AARNET. The hackers broke into Huston's system and also read the letter:

>Just to give you a little bit of an idea about what has been happen- ing since we last spoke. . . > >We have communicated with Sgt Ken Day of the Federal Police about 100 times in the last week. Together with our counterparts from Warrnambool traces have been arranged on dial-in lines and on Austpac lines for the capella.cc.deakin.OZ.AU terminal server which was left open to the world. > >On Friday afternoon we were able to trace a call back to a person in the Warrnambool telephone district. The police have this persons name. We believe others are involved, as we have seen up to 3 people active at any one time. It is 'suspected' stu- dents from RMIT and perhaps students from Deakin are also involved. > >When I left on Friday night, there was plenty of activity still and the police and Telecom were tracking down another number. > >Tomorrow morning I will talk to all parties involved, but it is likely we will have the names of at least 2 or 3 people that are involved. We will probably shut down access of 'cappella' to AARNet at this stage, and let the police go about their business of prosecuting these people. > >You will be 'pleased' (:-) to know you have not been the only ones under attack. I know of at least 2 other sites in Victoria that