The Olympian South Sound Saturday, July 18, 1992 Teen hacker faces charges for computer snooping Security system: The boy's first call triggered a state security system that recorded his attempt to crack agency files. By Devin Smith The Olympian Washington State Patrol detectives on Thursday seized personal computer equipment, programs and records from the east Olympia home of a 16-year-old boy suspected of trying to break into two state computer systems. The boy was not home at the time but police expect to arrest him when he returns from vacation next week, said Sgt. Ron Knapp of the Washington State Patrol. He could be charged with firstdegree computer trespass, a class felony punishable by up to five years in prison, Knapp said.
Police won't know what the hacker was up to until they interview him, Knapp said. But police know he was determined to get into computer files at Department of Licensing and the state Insurance Commissioner's office. The hacker first attempted to gain entry to the systems June 25, triggering a security system that automatically logged the attempt, Knapp said. While calling a state computer is not in itself illegal, attempting to gain entry to files once you've For the record Audit: There is no charge for obituaries. Obituaries should be directed to The Olympian, ATTN: Obituaries, P.O.
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Questions, call a 754-5420. Lenore Minor OBITUARIES Lenore Minor, 77, a resident of Olympia for 46 years, died Thursday, July 16, 1992, in St. Peter Hospital, Olympia. She was born to Carl G. and Eula (Nelson) Cronk on June 14, 1915, in Elberton.
She was married to Harry L. Minor, and lived in Spokane before moving to Olympia. Mrs. Minor was employed by Boone and Boone Realty as a real estate sales associate for 15 years. Surviving Mrs.
Minor, besides her husband, are two sons, Robert G. Bafus, Pendleton, and Troy Moore, Seattle; one daughter, Connie Hyde, Olympia; one brother, Gene Cronk, Garfield; also 10 grandchildren. A graveside service for Mrs. Minor will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 21, in Olympic Memorial Gardens, Tumwater.
The family suggests 1 memorial donations may be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Southwestern Washington Chapter, 6315 South 19th Tacoma, WA 98466. Arrangements are by Olympic Funeral Home, Tumwater. Mildred V. Madsack Mildred Virginia "Mickie" Madsack, 76, Olympia, died Thursday, July 16, 1992, in Firlane Terrace, Shelton. She was born March 18, 1916, to Homer and Myrtle Michael i in Southwick, Idaho.
She was married to Jack Madsack. Mrs. Madsack was a lifetime resident of Olympia. Surviving Mrs. Madsack, besides her husband of the family home, are a son, Jim, Olympia; two daughters, Sharon and Sandy, both of Olympia; two brothers, Virgil and Don Michael, both of Olympia; three sisters, Eileen, Shelton, Colleen, Portland, and Sylvia, Seattle; also three grandchildren, Chris and Monnette, Olympia, and Michelle, Seattle; and a greatgrandson, Brian, Seattle At Mrs.
Madsack's request, there will be no funeral service. Cremation arrangements are by Woodlawn Funeral Home and Crematorium, Lacey. DEATHS Dowling, Annabele, 73, Olympia, died Thursday, July 16, 1992, in St. Peter Hospital, Olympia. Forest Funeral Home, Olympia.
Smith, Rosie Anna, 83, Shelton, died Thursday, July 16, 1992, in her home. McComb and Batstone Funeral Home, Shelton. BIRTHS St. Peter Hospital Lyons, Amy, Olympia, a boy, Kyle Anthony, July 15, 1992. Trout, Sarah, and Gleason, Jay, Olympia, a girl, Kaelyn Naomi, July 16, 1992.
ON THE STUMP State Rep. Karen Fraser, D-Lacey, a candidate for the District 22 state Senate seat, has been endorsed by the Washington Environmental Political Action Committee and the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers. George Darkenwald, a candidate for Thurston County Superior Court judge, has been endorsed by the Washington Federation of State Employees. State Sen. Mike Kreidler, a Democratic candidate for the 9th Congressional District seat, will be running from Rainier to Roy today, making a stop in Yelm from a.m.
Sunday, he will run from Roy through Fort Lewis and then to Pacific Lutheran University. A Kriedler spokesman said the candidate is running half marathons each weekend day to highlight the need for a healthy America. On The Stump publicizes cam paign fund-raisers, meetings, and political news. Submit items to On the Stump, The Olympian, P.O. Box 407, Olympia, 98507.
POLICE REPORTS Thurston County The sheriff's office has concluded that it was definitely accidental when a 15-year-old boy received a gunshot wound to his right upper arm Tuesday night. The incident occurred at a Yelmarea home in the 8700 block of Whitewood Loop S.E., when a 14-year-old boy fired a pistol, discharging a bullet through the other youth's arm. The injured boy was taken from the scene by his parents for medical treatment. "'We're confident that it was an accidental discharge and there will be no criminal charges filed," Lt. Jim Chamberlain said Friday.
An inmate who escaped from the Cedar Creek Correctional Center Friday morning remained at large late Friday night, a 911 dispatcher said. The man's escape was reported at 10:15 a.m., the dispatcher said. Cedar Creek is a state minimum-security facility. A Tanglewilde man received a bullet wound to the left-knee area when he accidentally shot himself with a pistol at his home Thursday evening, a sheriff's office report said. William A.
Sielge, 22, was transported to Madigan Army Hospital in Fort Lewis for treatment. Rodney G. Boe, 23, of 7211 101st Ave. S.W., Olympia, was arrested Friday by sheriff's deputies in investigation of driving while intoxicated. He was released on personal recognizance.
Olympia Olympia police are investigating a report that a 14-year-old boy placed a small pocket knife to the throat of a 15- year-old boy and demanded that the older youth give him his leather coat in an alley behind Mario's Tobacco shop on East Fourth Avenue Thursday evening. But the theft was not carried out and the suspect left the scene, police were told. Vincent James Porreca, 37, of Tacoma, was arrested Thursday by Olympia police in investigation of second-degree theft. He was released through court on personal recognizance. Randy Steve Helton, 32, of Tacoma, was arrested Friday by Olympia police in investigation of second-degree theft and on a Pierce County warrant related to drug possession.
He remained late Friday in Thurston County Jail without bail. An estimated $2,100 loss was reported after four tires and a car stereo were stolen from a vehicle and another car stereo stolen from a second vehicle at Capitol Chevrolet, 2425 Carriage Loop S.W., late Thursday or early Friday, an Olympia police report said. Lacey An outboard motor valued at nearly $1,000 was stolen Thursday or Friday from a boat in the 6600 block of 33rd Avenue S.E., a Lacey police report said. Yelm Patty Ann Bigelow, 29, of Tranquility Lane, Yelm, was arrested Friday by Yelm police in investigation of third-degree assault, possession of a controlled substance, driving while intoxicated and possession of drug paraphernalia. She remained late Friday in Thurston County Jail without bail.
State Patrol William Keith Crow, 35, of Old Highway 99, Olympia, was arrested Thursday by the State Patrol in investigation of driving while intoxicated. He was booked into Thurston County Jail and later released on personal recognizance. LOTTERY Here is last night's winning number in the Washington State Lottery's Daily Game: 8-2-6 Toll-free state lottery number: 1-800-545-7510. Cranky library patron left it $100,000 Remembered in will: William Warren looked like a bum and griped a lot, but the librarians were good to him. The Associated Press SEATTLE smelled The bad old man wore cast-offs, and griped about the hard chairs at the Seattle Public Library, but he was tolerated by library staff even when other patrons suggested he be asked to leave.
When William Warren died, he remembered the library in his will. In fact, he was quite specific about how his $100,000 bequest was to be spent on soft chairs, better lighting and a collection of old, fulllength movies, a Seattle newspaper reports. Some beneficiaries of Warren's $1.2 million estate. which include several of kitchens where he ate many of his meals are still reeling at the discovery that he was a wealthy man. Warren, a longtime resident of a downtown hotel, died two years ago.
Recently, word got out he had left a fortune to the First Avenue Service, Center, which he had frequented for decades, and Blessed Sacrament Church, where he ate many a free dinner. Also remembered in his will, as recounted by library development director Terry Collings, were the Cornish Institute, an art school, and the Veterans Administration Medical Center, Seattle Tenants Union, St. James Cathedral, Gethsemane Lutheran Church, the Transcendental Meditation Program of Seattle and the Millionair Club. Collings remembers Warren's reaction when, years ago, the library replaced its padded chairs with plastic ones. "He marched upstairs" and told Ron Dubberly, then city librarian, that "he liked the old chairs better.
So eight of the old chairs were put in the corner of the library he liked No hero in trailer fire after all The Olympian Tumwater Loyal, of 7621 Henderson fire investigators Blvd. just south of Tumwater concluded Friday that a fire that had not remembered how he destroyed a travel trailer got out because he was in Thursday afternoon was caused shock, they said. by an electrical malfunction Loyal, who received first- and and that the explosion of a pro- second-degree burns on most of pane tank outside the trailer his body, remained in satisfacinto turned the initially small fire tory condition a large blaze. the burn unit of St. Joseph HosFriday night in pital in Tacoma.
Officials also concluded that The blaze also was no unknown hero in nearby unoccupied vehicles and there destroyed two the incident, as had been re- heavily damaged a nearby unocported by a bystander. Mike cupied mobile home, said fire Loyal, 36, who was in his trailer department Lt. Jim McGarva. when it caught fire, got himself No damage estimate has been out of the trailer, officials said. reached, he said.
called is illegal, Knapp said. State Patrol investigators worked with US West's security division, which helped to trace and identify the call, Knapp said. Over the next three weeks, the hacker made several more attempts to break into the system, unaware that the computer secusystem was logging every attempt. Those computer logs can be used as evidence against the hacker, Knapp said. Better oversight: The state's pension fund reported investment returns $1 billion over actual, audit says.
The Associated Press SEATTLE Washington's pension-investment fund, whose managers once touted it as the bestperforming in the nation of its kind, has in fact produced only average returns, a Legislative Budget Committee report says. The report by committee staff, delivered at Friday's meeting of the watchdog panel, confirmed several problems with State Investment Board oversight of the fund that were previously reported in news accounts. The difference between reported and actual returns on investments is as great as $1 billion, the report said. It also said that a real-estate portfolio managed by PrentissCopley, in which $405 million has been invested, is worth only about $256 million. In addition, the report said, the The hacker did not gain entry into either system, Knapp said.
State Patrol detectives are investigating whether another individual was involved. They are also trying to learn where the hacker obtained the computer phone numbers, which are not published and are known to only a few people, Knapp said. Hackers are not a big problem a on the Capitol Campus, which Knapp attributes to computer security systems. But those same systems only egg on some hackers. "Most people that attempt i it see that they are not going anywhere.
But every once in a while, you get somebody who will see it as a challenge," Knapp said. The last hacker arrested by state agents for attempting to break into state computer system was a Seattle man who was arrested in 1989, Knapp said. Pension controls flawed state's partners in venture-capital investments can receive healthy returns even when the pension fund loses. The State Investment Board lacks specific policies directing investment, lacks staff with expertise to monitor complicated investments and in many cases has little idea of how funds are handled, the performance audit said. "It appears that the board is out of the loop in critical said Rep.
Helen Sommers, D-Seattle, committee vice chairman. George Northcourt, investment board member and director of the in state Department of Retirement Systems, said the fund's problems should not affect retirees. "The size of the assets is still there," he said after speaking to of the board. "We're looking at operational and procedural things to strengthen it." The board, created by the state Legislature in 1981, oversees about $22 billion $16.5 billion in public employee pension funds, $5 billion in Department of Labor and Industries trust funds and about $500,000 in trust funds for schools, parks and wildlife. For years the board has been reporting the gross return on investments without deducting management fees, the audit found.
When the net return with fees is calculated, returns averaged 14 percent, instead of the reported 14.9 percent. While the amount of money in the fund remains the same under either calculation, a return of 14.9 percent would have been $1 billion greater than on 14 percent, the report said. "Contrary to widely held public opinion, the SIB has not had one of the best investment performances the nation," and returns are average at best, the report said. Recommendations made in the report include: Increasing the financial stake general partners so their fortunes are tied to investment performance. Creating a monitoring process for real-estate investments.
Developing a code of ethics for board members and staff. Requiring that personal services contracts be filed with the state Office of Financial Management. Giant bird print ruled a hoax Disappointment: The paleontologist who examined the footprint says he is puzzled about the motive for the stunt. The A Associated Press SEATTLE A giant footprint found in the Green River Gorge probably was not left thousands of years ago by a prehistoric 7- foot bird, paleontologists say. Several factors indicate the 13- by 13-inch footprint "is bogus and that it was manufactured by man," wrote Allison Andors in a summary report on the track.
Noting that his findings are tentative, he said it would be prudent for the University of Washington's Burke Museum to keep the chunk of sandstone containing the print. Andors, a paleontologist based at the Museum of Natural History in New York and an expert on the flightless bird called Diatryma, said his conclusion was a "disappointment." Signs of the 350-pound bird that lived 50 million years ago have never been found west of Wyoming, and a genuine track would have been one of the most significant fossil finds in Western Washington, he said. Andors said he was puzzled by the motive for such a hoax, and wondered "why it was not reported immediately rather than having been left for someone else to discover" at Flaming Geyser State Park near Black Diamond. He and Washington State Parks archaeologist Dan Meatte said they do not believe John Patterson of Maple Valley, who found the print this spring in a chunk of sandstone that had fallen from a cliff into the Green River, had anything to do with the hoax. "Nothing in his handling of the matter suggests he made it," Andors said.
Patterson, a former Boeing employee and inventor who carves wood for a hobby, said he is frustrated by Andors' conclusion. He said he believes Andors, who looked at the print during a visit to the area, was swayed by UW paleontologist John Rensberger, who had been skeptical about the print all along. Patterson says he wants the museum to return the print to him so he can show it to other scientists. Meatte said his agency doesn't want to do that. "It's still a curiosity," he said.
"I don't want it dragged around by an individual shopping for opinions." Meatte indicated the print may end up back at Flaming Geyser State Park. If the track is a phony, it was expertly made, Andors said. But he cited the following evidence against its being the real thing: The track cuts through sediment layers, rather than compressing the sand or mud that formed the sandstone. This suggests the print was shaped after the material hardened into stone. Patterson disputes this observation, contending the sediment layers are compressed by the print.
The bird Diatryma was probably extinct by the time the sediment in the gorge was deposited. The track differs from known Diatryma prints in the length of one of the three toes and the shape of the talons. There are a few chisel marks across the edge of the middle toe and scratches in the impression from the talons, suggesting human sculpture. Scientists suggested the shape might have been scratched in the stone by fishermen, with the deeper "talon" marks made for resting the butt of a fishing pole. best.
The corner with the brightest lighting," Collings recalled. While some of his beneficiaries remember him as a wise and kindly old fellow, the library staff uses terms like "a real character," "a curmudgeon" and "demanding and obstreperous." Librarian Alan Jergens is grateful for Warren's bequest on behalf of the library, but a tad disappointed not to be listed himself. Not long before Warren's death, Jergens recalled, the elderly man told Jergens and two other librarians who had put up with him almost daily for 20 years: "You guys have been nice to me. You've always helped me out when I've had problems and I appreciate it. What's your name? Write it down for me.
I'm going to put you in my will." Jergens did, but Warren didn't. "If he had you'd have to find me somewhere in the south of France," Jergens said. Local driver takes honors in national contest By Lorrine C. Thompson The Olympian An Olympia School District bus driver took first place in the state bus-driving competition in Pasco in June, then went on to finish 11th in the national event in Chicago last week. Diana Wilkowski, who has driven buses for 12 years and competed in the state event for eight, drove against 71 other state winners in her first national bus contest.
Contest events, which focus on safety and skill in handling the 36- foot buses, include a written driving test, a pre-trip inspection in which drivers have to locate six things wrong with a bus, rail crossing and sharp turn events, backing a bus into a stall, and driving with the bus wheels running through a narrow corridor of tennis balls on small stands. ON NOW! LENT SALES "7" PIECE SAVE $100 DINETTE SET table extends to 6 upholstered contemporary styling with Bright chairs. $29895 EVENINGS TILL 7 P.M. OPEN SUNDAYS FURNITURE WEST OLYMPIA LACEY 866-2884 HAWKS PRAIRIE 4106 Mud 438-0123 459-4432 Bay Rd. 3535 S.E.
Pacific 6715 Martin Way E. Wilkowski comes from a busdriving family; her father and mother were bus drivers for the Olympia School District. Her mother, Bonita Darlene Rose, won the state competition in 1980 and still drives for Intercity Transit. "I've always had a love of driving large vehicles," said Wilkowski, who is pretty sure she will continue to compete in the rodeo. "I've been working toward getting first at state, and I thought after I did I would relax," she said.
But her trip to the national competition in Chicago may have changed her mind. "Now that I've been there, I want to take it," she said. STOPPERS THURSTON COUNTY AREA. CRIME OF THE WEEK South Sound law enforcement If officers you provide information that are looking for leads Thurston information leading to the arrest enforcement agencies County law to an suspects who committed a arrest of a suspect and the burglary at The Subway of charges, you may qualify for a filing Sandwich Shop, 4913 Lacey reward of up to $1,000. Blvd.
S.E., in Lacey. Without giving your name, you may be able to help. The burglary was between Thursday, June 25 and Friday, June 26. If you have information about The suspects took more than this or any other crime, call $1,000 from a safe inside the CRIMESTOPPERS at 493-2222. building and nearly $200 cash Remember, you need never from a cabinet.
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