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	Tsutomu Shimomura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tsutomu Shimomura is a scientist and computer security expert, who gained fame when he, together with computer journalist John Markoff, tracked down and helped FBI arrest hacker Kevin Mitnick.
		Tsutomu Shimomura is a senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he works on problems in areas as diverse as computational physics and...
		Tsutomu Shimomura is a Japanese scientist and computer security expert based in the United States,...
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Tsutomu_Shimomura.html (831 words)

	How a Computer Sleuth Traced a Digital Trail
		Shimomura, who is 30, is a computational physicist with a reputation as a brilliant cyber-sleuth in the tightly knit community of programmers and engineers who defend the country's computer networks.
		Shimomura's monitoring efforts enabled investigators to watch as the intruder commandeered telephone company switching centers, stole computer files from Motorola, Apple Computer and other companies, and copied 20,000 credit-card account numbers from a commercial computer network used by some of the computer world's wealthiest and technically savviest people.
		And it was Shimomura who concluded last Saturday that the intruder was probably Mitnick, whose whereabouts had been unknown since November 1992, and that he was operating from a cellular telephone network in Raleigh, N.C. Sunday morning, Shimomura took a flight from San Jose to Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/cyber/week/mitnick2.html (1748 words)

	Shimomura vs. Mitnick: The Computer Crime of the Year?
		Tsutomu Shimomura, a computational physicist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, is known for his interest in computer security -- in particular, methods of preventing intrusion into systems.
		Without being able to see the acknowledgments being sent back by Shimomura's system (those acknowledgments were going to the computer the attacker was pretending to be), the attacker was nevertheless able to guess the sequence numbers being passed, and thereby associate appropriate numbers with future packets he sent.
		In the Shimomura case, for example, he apparently didn't sell the hacking tools he stole (although we can assume that, by now, the tools have been widely distributed to the computer underground), nor did he appear to use or distribute the credit card numbers taken from Netcom.
	www.crime-research.org /library/cybercrime2.html (1805 words)

	Book.ie - Takedown ($1.99 USD, £1.10 GBP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The details of Shimomura's personal life are probed in depth while technical, legal, and ethical questions are brushed over without commentary, such as the supposed proof of Mitnick's involvement in the break-in or Markoff's involvement in the capture.
		Shimomura can definitely be egotistical depending on your viewpoint, but it didn't bother me. It doesn't get in the way of the story, which was told beautifully and naturally.
		Shimomura and Markoff boh essentially believe that they are the lone men responsible for the takedown and capture of Mitnick, and that not even the dozens (hundreds?) of security firms and companies who spent millions of their own money tracking Mitnick deserve any credit at all.
	www.webtropy.com /book/book.aspx?Takedown (930 words)

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		Shimomura, who is 30, is a computational physicist with a reputation as a brilliant cybersleuth in the tightly knit community of programmers and engineers who defend the country's computer networks.
		Shimomura who concluded last Saturday that the intruder was probably Kevin Mitnick, whose whereabouts had been unknown since November 1992, and that he was operating from a cellular phone network in Raleigh, N.C. On Sunday morning, Mr.
		Shimomura had found the apartment complex, pinning down the apartment was difficult because the cellular signals were creating a radio echo from an adjacent building.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MoneyInc/money031.txt (4006 words)

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		Tsutomu Shimomura was in zijn eer aangetast en begint als een samurai een klopjacht op de kraker.
		Tsutomu Shimomura was actief bij de jacht betrokken, evenals op het laatst de journalist John Markoff, een goede kennis van Tsutomu Shimomura.
		Het boek van Markoff en Tsutomu Shimomura is interessant uit technisch oogpunt (als om de egotripperij van Tsutomu Shimomura heengelezen wordt), het verhaal van Jeff Goodell geeft een aardig overzicht van beide kanten, terwijl het boek van Jonathan Littman bijna 'de Mitnick kant van de zaak' genoemd kan worden.
	www.nluug.nl /newsletter/9603/81-Boek1.html (1711 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer ...
		Takedown is Tsutomu Shimomura's own riveting account of the story that has already become a real-life epic for the Information Age - a classic manhunt that, instead of being carried out on crowded urban streets or backcountry roads, is conducted over telephone wires.
		Despite some tedious, self-indulgent subplots, this is an engaging account of the electronic battle between cybersleuth Shimomura and cyberthief Mitnick, which ended last February with the FBI's arrest of Mitnick in Raleigh, N.C. The two men are not dissimilar: they're both in their early 30s, technologically brilliant and personally arrogant.
		Born in Japan, Shimomura was a computer consultant at Princeton at 14 and a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos at 19, although he never finished high school or college.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=QC7OuwDBh4&isbn=0786862106&itm=2 (1009 words)

	April 5, 1999: Motion to Suppress Evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shimomura "made it clear that our goal was to locate our quarry as quickly as possible and keep moving upstream until we pinned him down." (p.
		Shimomura's actions at these sights were at the approval and acquiescence of the government.
		Shimomura will be subpoenaed to testify at the hearing on this matter, scheduled for April 5, 1999 at 1:30 p.m., Courtroom 12.
	www.freekevin.com /040599ncecpamotion.html (4443 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tsutomu Shimomura Bio Tsutomu Shimomura Computational Physicist San Diego Supercomputer Center Tsutomu Shimomura is a computational physicist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center in La Jolla, California.
		Shimomura is currently at work on a software filter that he hopes will make it easier to ward off such attacks.
		Shimomura is a self-described ski bum and a volunteer for the cross country ski patrol near Lake Tahoe.
	www.ualberta.ca /~neitsch/sunsite.ualberta.ca/sun-info/sunergy/broadcast_docs/march_95/shimomura_bio (164 words)

	★ Reviews for Shimomura,_Tsutomu
		Shimomura comes off as a completely annoying egomaniac who downplays the contributions of others and inflates his own achievements.
		The self-obsessed Shimomura allows co-author Markoff to treat us to WAY more personal details than we want to know about him, but the second half of the book delivers a few useful insights into backtracing hackers.
		Shimomura is clearly a high-flyer, outstanding from an early age, who could more or less pick his own assignments.
	authors.booksunderreview.com /S/Shimomura,_Tsutomu (1365 words)

	Tages-Anzeiger: Kultur
		Shimomuras Freundin Julia, einst Apple-Angestellte, ist "eine gute Yogalehrerin" und Naturfreundin, sie "liebt Berge", wie man hört, "und ist in den Himalaja aufgebrochen".
		Shimomuras 39-Stunden-Nonstop-Einsatz zeigt, was für Potentiale hier zu erschliessen sind, ohne dass die Auftraggeber sich um Folge- oder Nebenkosten zu scheren hätten.
		Shimomura und Julia leben vor, wie dies gelingen könnte: Nicht das "Heim" modifiziert die Arbeit, sondern umgekehrt.
	homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de /niels.werber/Publikationen/Yuppie-Tageanzeiger.htm (744 words)

	take down - ek$i sozluk
		tsutomu shimomura adýndaki güvenlik uzmanýnýn kevin mitnick'i yakalamasýndan sonra yazdýðý kitaptan esinlenerek çekilmiþ ve skeet ulrich'in kevini oynadýðý film.
		film tsutomu shimomura'nýn kendini övmesi ve bak kardeþim ben buyum bunu yaparým, iþe paten kayarak giderim kimse bana karýþamaz, ayrýca hatunla tokuþmasaydým sen beni hek edemezdin gibi bilinç altý dürtülerinden ortaya çýkmýþtýr.
		tsutomu shimomura kevin mitnick'i hapisde ziyarete geldiginde neden diye sorar.aldigi cevabsa mitnick'in felsefesini ozetler.
	sozluk.sourtimes.org /show.asp?t=hackers+takedown (436 words)

	Movie-Vault.com: Print Review
		Kevin is a very smart guy who infiltrates wherever he wants by using his computer skills and also some acting skills, which is needed to talk some people like security people and lie to them to get the information needed.
		People who have met Mitnick before have said that the film makes Tsutomu look better than he actually is, as if he was a very good guy and he caught Mitnick because of all of his skills and stuff.
		Tsutomu was played by Russell Wong, and some cops were Christopher McDonald and Tom Berenguer.
	www.movie-vault.com /archive/printreview.pl?action=moviereview&movieid=FpxKaUiXrPRklLen (543 words)

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		The NSA is another big, dumb government institution to Shimomura, even though he's trying to squeeze funding from it at the beginning of the tale.
		At least fifty percent of the book is devoted to Shimomura explaining his life of privilege in the same detail he uses to describe the names of his computers.
		Littman draws the conclusion in "The Fugitive Game" that Shimomura, in addition to being fired up over the invasion of his system, was also embarrassed by the loss of this software, software he engineered, the author implies, under quasi-legal circumstances.
	www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /6805/assorted-short-pieces/kouch-mitnick-two-books.txt (1180 words)

	Change Project: Computer Intruders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tsutomu Shimomura, the owner of the cottage, was away in San Francisco.
		Tsutomu Shimomura, in fact, is a name to conjure with, in the tight land of computer security.
		Within days, Shimomura was across the continent, cruising the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina, with a technician of the local cellular phone company, zeroing in on the hijacked cellular signal that was the intruder's lifeline to the net.
	www.well.com /user/bbear/hackers.html (4004 words)

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		One of Shimomura's > machines routinely mailed a copy of several record-keeping files to a > safe computer elsewhere on the network -- a fact that the intruder did > not notice.
		Shimomura's team, aided by > Mark Seiden, an expert in computer fire walls, discovered that someone > had obtained a copy of the credit-card numbers for 20,000 members of > Netcom Communications Inc., a service based in San Jose that provides > Internet access.
		And although Shimomura had found the > apartment complex, pinning down the apartment was difficult because > the cellular signals were creating a radio echo from an adjacent > building.
	www.netspace.org /users/dmacks/pub/serious/catching.hacker (1941 words)

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		Finally, there is Tsutomu Shimomura, who became something of a hero on the Internet when he tracked down Kevin Mitnick following an electronic trail from California to North Carolina.
		TSUTOMU SHIMOMURA: I had a break-in on my machines over Christmas of last year, and it wasn't clear who they were or who was involved, but there were some fairly clear pointers.
		TSUTOMU SHIMOMURA: As we have more commerce on the Net, as there's more stuff of commercial value, there will be more incentive for people to break in for personal gain.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/cyberspace/cyberspace_10-4.html (1415 words)

	The Mad-Scientist Myth Figure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tsutomu Shimomura, the "security expert" who had played a key role in catching Mitnick after Mitnick broke into Shimomura's computers at the end of 1994.
		Shimomura is scathing toward his assistant, a hapless graduate student whose errors are spelled out repeatedly in humiliating detail.
		While he was pursuing Mitnick, Shimomura was also pursuing "Julia," the long-term girlfriend of John Gilmore, one of the first employees at Sun Microsystems in 1982 who subsequently co-founded the software corporation Cygnus.
	www.hpgx.net /willday/mitnick/takedown.review.html (2862 words)

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		Shimomura was robbed of security programs he had written when his computer was broken into on Christmas Day, about two months ago.
		Shimomura was able to detirmine this past weekend that Mitnick, 31, was connecting through a modem attached to a cellular phone somewhere near Raleigh.
		At the end of the hearing as he was being led away, a handcuffed and shackled Mitnick turned to Shimomura, whom he has never met or seen before and said, "Hello, Tsutomu, I respect your skills." Shimomura nodded, then turned his back and walked away.
	massis.lcs.mit.edu /archives/security-fraud/kevin.mitnick.captured (952 words)

	SALON Features: A conversation with John Markoff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the reasons that that confrontation between him and Tsutomu happened was that at the end of the hearing I walked up to him at the front.
		It referred to Tsutomu Shimomura as "The James Bond of Cyberspace." So I called them up and said, you know, maybe Sherlock Holmes would be a better metaphor here.
		If Tsutomu and I have anything to say, it's that the country needs to think about privacy and security issues as we step forward into whatever kind of world is emerging here.
	www.salon.com /30dec1995/features/qamarkoff.html (1512 words)

	TAKEDOWN:biography
		Tsutomu Shimomura is a senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he works on problems in areas as diverse as computational physics and computer security.
		Shimomura assisted Hasslacher in developing a radical approach to simulating the flow of fluids based on a new model of computation, known as lattice gas automata.
		A Japanese citizen, Shimomura was raised in Princeton, New Jersey.
	www.takedown.com /bio (2560 words)

	Wired 4.02: Catching Kevin
		It was a bold move, because Shimomura was a respected security expert and a character almost as complex as Mitnick.
		A 30-year-old science geek, Shimomura was also a Japanese citizen, a ski bum, a longhaired computational physicist, and a hacker himself.
		So, in December 1994, when someone broke into Tsutomu Shimomura's elaborate computer system in his San Diego home using a never-before-seen, sophisticated hacking method and then stole some fancy cellular phone tools, Shimomura took it as a personal challenge.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.02/catching.html (864 words)

	Negation: The truth about AntiOnline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		who ru 'tsutomu shimomura': http://www.antionline.com/cgi-bin/WhoRU?bio=Tsutomu_Shimomura "Tsutomu Shimomura is a senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he works on problems in the areas as of computational physics and computer security.
		Tsutomu Shimomura is the author of Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw -- By The Man Who Did It.
		" takedown bio: http://www.takedown.com/bio/tsutomu.html "Tsutomu Shimomura is a senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he works on problems in areas as diverse as computational physics and computer security."...
	www.attrition.org /negation/www/ao.039.html (547 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Shimomura also works as a security expert, which made his systems both desirable targets for attack, and allows us to understand in detail what happened.
		Because, unlike most networks, Shimomura was using tcpdump to monitor traffic incoming from his Internet connection, and routinely sent his logs to an offsite location.
		Shimomura's systems trusted one another, using the trust mechanism exploited in the ``r'' commands like rsh and rcp.
	www.ussrback.com /docs/sequence_attacks.txt (3288 words)

	Tsutomu Shimomura: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tsutomu Shimomura is a scientist scientist quick summary:
		A scientist is a person who is expert in an area of science and who uses the scientific method in research....
		Markoff and Shimomura later told the story in Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw – By The Man Who Did It (Hyperion, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ts/tsutomu_shimomura.htm (553 words)

	Book Review: Takedown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is the tale of how Tsutomu Shimomura, a US computer security expert who discovered his systems were being hacked, engaged on a long pursuit of the individual or individuals responsible, with the aim of bringing them to justice.
		There are certainly some similarities to be observed; both Stoll and Shimomura appear to be people with plenty of spare time on their hands for tracking down hackers; both have difficulty getting system operators, telephone companies, and law enforcement agencies to take them seriously; both books have suggestions that international espionage may be involved.
		Finally, both books attempt to ameliorate the fact that details of computer crime involve technical terms and knowledge which are beyond many of the general public; and that in general the legwork involved in making a case is dull and repetitive, by giving us insights into the lives of the authors.
	www.law.warwick.ac.uk /ltj/5-1h.html (970 words)

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		Shimomura's co-author is reporter John Markoff, who first brought Shimomura's name to public attention with a front-page story of the break-in in the Jan. 23, 1995, New York Times.
		Markoff and Shimomura want to buttress their contention that Mitnick is ''after'' Shimomura, while Littman believes the Internet postings prove it was much ado about nothing -- and that the attack never belonged on the front page of papers like the New York Times or the Mercury News.
		Shimomura's machines.'' Other security professionals agree that Shimomura's machine was not as well protected as it could have been.
	www.simson.net /clips/1996/96.SJMN.MitnickMarkoff.txt (1933 words)

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