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Campus Police Report

The hackers were seen as they finished deploying the hack. The following excerpts are from the resulting Campus Police report. The fact that the Campus Police were in lobby 7 twice (once after they had been advised that there was a hack there) and did not notice the hack shows how subtle it was.


Date: 08/25/94
Offense: POSSIBLE HACK
Location: BLD 7 LOBBY AREA
City: CAMBRIDGE
Ptl. Rte.: 3
Shift: 1
Date Occurred:
Earliest:
08/25/94
Latest:08/25/94
Time Occurred:
Earliest:
0242hrs
Latest: 0242hrs

[complainant information withheld]

Narrative:
ON 08/24/94 AT 0242hrs RECEIVED A PHONE CALL FROM COMPLAINANT WHO ADVISES SHE OBSERVED (4) STUDENTS ON THE ``CATWALK'' JUST ABOVE THE 4th FLOOR IN BLD 7 LOBBY. SAID STUDENTS WERE ATTEMPTING TO REPEL [sic] FROM SAID AREA, BUT WHEN STUDENTS OBSERVED THE COMPLAINANT WATCHING THEM THEY DID NOT & IMMEDIATELY LEFT THE AREA. OFF. ELIASON & SGT. ROGERS ALONG WITH P.P. SUPERVISOR GLEN WILDER & MIKE QUINLAN ENTERED SAID AREA BUT FOUND NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY. FURTHER INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT ACCESS TO THIS AREA IN BLD 7 WAS READILY AVAILABLE THRU THE BLD 5 SIDE BY PUTTING UP A LADDER AND CRAWLING THRU A 6'X3' SPACE WHICH IS DUE TO CONSTRUCTION GOING ON IN THAT VICINITY. P.P. SUPERVISOR WILL NOTIFY CONTRACTORS IN THE A.M. ABOUT SECURING THIS AREA WHEN THEY ARE DONE FOR THE DAY.

ALSO ON 08/25/94 AT 0400hrs AN UNKNOWN W/M DELIVERED A LETTER TO SGT. ROGERS WHICH WAS ADDRESSED TO DUTY SGT. (SEE ATTACHED). SAID W/M STATED (4) UNKNOWN PERSONS REQUESTED HE DELIVER SAME--DOES NOT KNOW ANY OF THE PERSON(S) WHO REQUESTED THIS OF HIM--ONLY THAT ALL OF THEM WERE DRESSED IN BLACK. ANOTHER SEARCH OF THE AREA WAS MADE BUT WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. ALSO BLD SERVICES & P.P. ADVISED OF SITUATION.

Date of Report: 08/25/94
Time of report: 0450hrs
Badge No.: #61
Reporting Officer: Sgt. Wm. Rogers


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