SOCIALITE'S TEEN-AGE SON FACES 'HACKING' CHARGES

                Duplicated from The Houston Chronicle - 10/28/88

By John Makeig
Houston Chronicle
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The teen-age son of Houston socialite Carolyn Farb was indicted Thursday
on charges accusing him of using a home computer to avoid thousands of
dollars in telephone charges.

Kenyon Schulman, 19, was not in custody as Harris County grand jurors
indicted him on three charges of credit card abuse.

Defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin immediately denounced the indictments.

"I think the whole thing is ridiculous," he said.  "The only reason
it's gone this far is because of who his mother is, not what he's
done."

Prosecutor Greg Anderson said Schulman had been using a home computer
illicitly to obtain authorization codes that let Advanced
Telecommunications Co.customers make long-distance phone calls on
credit.

The case resulted from a request by ATC to Southwestern Bell to trace
the number of the telephone they suspected had been used in January
and February to obtain codes, Anderson said.

The calls were traced to Farb's River Oaks mansion, and authorities
executed a search warrant there Feb. 3, seizing Schulman's home
computer and discs.

The confiscated discs revealed that Schulman had been using the
"hacker" nickname "Jack the Ripper" to communicate with other
hackers on computer bulletin boards.

Printouts of the discs' contents cover a wide variety of materials,
including the ingredients of the explosive nitroglycerine, how to
crack a "fortress fone," how to make jammers to combat police radar,
the intricacies of stores' anti-shoplifting detection systems and
even how to remove money from vending machines.

Also listed was the "Phone Phreaks Ten Commandments," one of which
was: "Storest thou not thine stolen goods in thine own home for those
who do so are surely nonbelievers in the Bell System security
forces and are not long for this world."

Other items were mundane tidbits for computer enthusiasts.

There was no indication, Anderson said, that Schulman, actually used
any of the diverse materials for wrongdoing.

"I can't give you a monetary figure for the three cases, but the
total abuse we're alleging is in the thousands -- more than $10,000,"
Anderson said.

In March, Farb testified before grand jurors, but not before DeGuerin
challenged the panel's right to get a detailed list of the socialite's
household employees.

State District Judge Mike McSpadden made her reveal the list.

Concern was expressed also that Schulman might be expelled from the
Tenney School -- a private school here for grades six through 12 -
if authorities somehow harassed school officials.

Schulman, described as a computer whiz, now is a University of
Houston student, DeGuerin said.
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Now how's that for a story...It's in both Houston newspapers..This
came from the Chronicle..the post is a little different on the story
but it basically says the same thing...