FEDERATION – GUIDANCE FOR OVERHEAD AND STAFF USERS
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July 23 1995
Introduction
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Hi! – and welcome to Federation. This document is intended to provide
guidance for overhead and staff account holders on AOL who are playing
Federation (referred to as OHs in this document).
As an OH playing Federation you are in a privileged position, because
we do not get paid for your usage. Because you are in a position of
privilege, you have obligations to AOL and the Federation team that paying
players do not.
At the moment, we allow any OH to play Fed, but bear in mind that if your
presence in Fed starts to cause us problems then you will be locked out of
the game, and if we get too many problems with OHs we will simply stop all
OHs from playing.
The following is a summary of AOL’s “Kids Only Channel Policies.” The AAC is obligated to follow these policies at all times. (from “Document Version 2.32”). All items are direct quotes, commentary is in brackets. The original document is 16 pages long. Grammar and spelling are as found in the original document. This document was prepared bu AAC Coord based on policies in effect in July, 1998.
Introduction
AOL developed The the Kids Only Channel Policies (“Policies”) to ensure a uniform consistent set of standards and practices throughout all programming and advertising areas (Rainman or web-based) targeted to kids children 12 and under on America Online, and particularly including through the Kids Only channel. AOL reserves the right to modify these Policies as necessary. Additionally, AOL expects all Partners to abide by the Children’s Advertising Review Board Unit (“CARU”) guidelines for Interactive Electronic Media (see also http://www.bbb.org/advertising/caruguid.html)
Policy PrincipleObjectivesGoals
~Provide a safe, age appropriate environment for kids in a manner appealing to both kids and parents, addressing primary industry and consumer concerns:
~Providing age appropriate content
~Protecting youth privacy, including protection from online predators
~Creating an age-appropriate marketing environment.
~Create a viable programming and business model for youth-targeted areas and partners on AOL.
~Provide a safe, age appropriate environment for kids in a manner appealing to both kids and parents;
~Create a viable programming and business model for youth targeted channels and partners on AOL.
**>> FEDERATION GREETER'S GUIDE 96.09.30 TOS SECTION HOW TO DEAL WITH TOS PROBLEMS It's a sad fact that part of your job is to act as a Fed Cop and stop people from offending against TOS or the Federation Policy. Greeters are the first line of action when someone starts misbehaving, and, except in very serious cases or when you are very busy, generally Hosts won't intervene until you ask them to bump or lock someone. Please do not be afraid to pass a problem player to a Host to deal with. If you give someone a TOS warning, and they ignore it, there's usually not much point giving them another warning - they need to be bumped out of the game as a wake-up call, or locked out completely.
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A Massachusetts teenager has pleaded guilty to hacking into the cell-phone account of hotel heiress and Hollywood celebrity Paris Hilton, a high-profile stunt by the youngest member of the same hacking group federal investigators say was responsible for a series of electronic break-ins at data giant LexisNexis.
The 17-year-old boy was sentenced to 11 months’ detention at a juvenile facility for a string of crimes that include the online posting of revealing photos and celebrity contact numbers from Hilton’s phone. As an adult, he will then undergo two years of supervised release in which he will be barred from possessing or using any computer, cell phone or other electronic equipment capable of accessing the Internet.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts and the state district court declined to identify the teen, noting that federal juvenile proceedings and the identity of juvenile defendants are under seal. But a law enforcement official close to the case confirmed that the crimes admitted to by the teen included the hacking of Hilton’s account.
The teen also pleaded guilty to making bomb threats at two high schools and for breaking into a telephone company’s computer system to set up free wireless-phone accounts for friends. He also participated in an attack on data-collection firm LexisNexis Group that exposed personal records of more than 300,000 consumers. Prosecutors said victims of the teen’s actions have suffered about $1 million in damages.
In a series of telephone and online communications between March and June with a washingtonpost.com reporter, the teen acknowledged responsibility for all of the crimes for which he was sentenced.
Washingtonpost.com is not revealing his name because he communicated with the reporter on the condition that he not be identified either directly or through his online alias.
Investigators began focusing on the teen in March 2004 when he sent an expletive-laced e-mail to a high school in Florida threatening to blow it up, according to a statement from prosecutors. The school was closed for two days while a bomb squad, a canine team, the fire department and other emergency officials examined the building.
In August 2004, the teen broke into the internal computer systems of “a major internet service provider” by tricking an employee into opening a virus-infected file he sent as an e-mail attachment. The virus — known as a “Trojan horse” program — allowed the juvenile to use the employee’s computer remotely to access other computers on the ISP’s internal network and gain access to portions of the company’s operational information, prosecutors said.
The teen told washingtonpost.com earlier this year that around that time he broke into the network of Dulles, Va.-based America Online. AOL did not return calls seeking comment.
In January, the teen hacked into the telephone records system of T-Mobile International. He used a security flaw in the company’s Web site that allowed him to reset the password of anyone using a Sidekick, a pricey phone-organizer-camera device that stores videos, photos and other data on T-Mobile’s central computer servers. A month later, the teen would use that flaw to gain access to Hilton’s Sidekick files, according to corroborating information and screen shots he shared with washingtonpost.com.
Later that month, according to prosecutors, an associate of the teen “set up accounts for the juvenile at a company which stores identity information concerning millions of individuals.”
Again, prosecutors declined to name the company targeted in that attack. But according to screen shots provided by the teen — supported by other information from the teen that was verified by a senior federal law enforcement official investigating the case who spoke on condition on anonymity — the company was LexisNexis, which reported in March that hackers had gained access to the personal records of more than 310,000 Americans.
