European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine software Success to soon Valley by Steve Wilstein associated press listening to Philippe kahns tales of Silicon its easier to imagine him dressed in a Robe and Wreath while playing a saxophone than addressing prestigious business Hes done both since leaving a humdrum Job teaching math in France in 1982 and kissing his wife and kids goodbye to seek riches in the land of venture his family together but life has changed dramatically for now Hes millions of dollars Richer on at least because of two smash hits on the computer software Turbo Pascal and the venture capitalists shunned but Kahn made his Fortune working 15 to 20 hours a Day design packaging and shipping his Hes also 60 pounds heavier than when he arrived in Scotts a condition he blames on a fondness for american ice Kahn is president and chief stockholder of Borland a 2yearold company he says recorded million in sales in fiscal 1984 and expects about million this Kahn started his company in True Silicon Valley Fash Ion in a like Hewlett Packard and Apple he applied for a permanent visa last summer and expects to return to Paris within the next few months to pick it Kahn disdains Market hires people for their not for their and refuses to Wear a Borland staff includes a former manager of a Japa Nese who became vice president for operations a former Punk Rock cocktail who is now director of and an exc Ampbell soup Salesman who Heads dealer a photo Philippe Kahn president and chief stockholder of Borland shipping software or serving food in restaurants Are about the same Kahn you but its you have to keep the customers youve got to serve them on time and the meal has to be otherwise they wont come Kahn was described by one software analyst As almost a cult figure and not a flyby night Type of others Are More maybe Hes a cult figure to but in my mind he still has a Long Way to go to compete with other computer Industry says Robert Lefko an analyst for inf corp of two products do not a successful software company another Kathy Lane of Dat quest in san notes that Kahn seems to do things that catch she lauds him for coming up with Good products at a Low Price and marketing them cleverly to techno ids who read computer a desktop organizer that puts a note Calendar or phone directory on a computer screen while a word processing program is in won raves when it was introduced last Kahn says More than copies of sidekick have been despite Competition from similar products by other including ibis Kahn likes to talk about his Early Days in the he says he cooked up a comic scheme to trick an and Salesman for a Trade Magazine into thinking he was going to give his business to other As a result he got the advertising on credit at a special the ads launched a successful mail order Campaign for Turbo software that helps programmers write in the Pascal computer Kahn said he came to the United states with about and took a variety of Odd jobs with computer he had the idea of Selling software As Little As 10 percent of the going rate of to everybody thought software would succeed Only in the business he my idea was there was a huge Market in universities and High schools had just switched to that millions of potential customers who Are renewed every but nobody recognized we were he if someone at that time had Given us for the we would have Given away our we sold in on that program generated probably million in sales in the first his seed Money came in a loan from his i sold him Stock in my company for a very reasonable Kahn for it was a lot of his i think he believed from France that i had that is now Worth Over million on Kahn the Cracker Hacks no More by Frank Spotnitz United press International he got his first personal computer when he was instantly became addicted to the machines unique language and soon began playing with it to the exclusion of most everything by the time he was Bill Landreth was facing felony charges for illegally peeking into gets computer files in some Miles away from his san Fri agents searched his questioned his seven younger Brothers and Sisters and carted away his computer a judge ordered him to undergo psychiatric ultimately deciding to hand the teenage computer Whiz a suspended three year sen tence instead of a jail now the As he is known in computer is 20 years old and about to enter he also is promoting his Book out of the inner sort of an insiders guide to the world of computer Hack a term that refers to looking at computer files youre not supposed to the soft spoken Landreth swears he does not Hack in he is spreading the word about com Puter Security with simply by stumbling upon the right combination of hackers with a computer and a Telephone can break into huge mainframe computers conceive wreak havoc Worth millions of Landreth personal computer owners need not fear someone will attempt to peek into their electronic but businessmen with sophisticated computer equipment should consider How valuable their information is to he Landreth said businesses usually do not need to be 100 percent he estimated most probably Are Only 40 percent protected against factors that increase vulnerability include use of phone Access to terminals within the building and the number of people using the after considering those the businessman can decide How sophisticated his Protection system should he some of the easiest computers to gain Access to Are the ones people probably would like guarded the most those containing their credit checking them out is a fairly simple the Whiz kid does see things getting As computer experts develop More sophisticated locks for their it was Telephone not credit card that got Landreth in july 1985 Landreth and some hackers he knew Only Over the Telephone lines had formed the inner a group of about a dozen computer addicts who could be trusted not to abuse information that allowed them to illegally Access huge one of the computers he and his friends shared Access to belonged to general Telephone and electronics which the inner Circle members used to Send electronic mail to one in the fall of the Fri began confiscating personal computers in 13 states that had linked up to the get system All i had done was set up a mail system to communicate with other Landreth it didst seem like they would have the Fri after 1 would have understood if they had contacted me and told me to get off the in some Landreth was a victim of the publicity Mill surrounding hacking that started after the movie about a Landreth like teenager who nearly starts world War Iii by linking up with a defense department the movie flooded the country with Amateur looking for the ballistic thrill of and resulted in a wave of Sloppy that when the Long Arm of the Law scooped up the stars and stripes Page 13