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According to NASA officials, SPAN links about 800 computers in government, industry and academe. The SPAN network suddenly became well known after the Chaos hackers held a press conference in Hamburg, West Germany, earlier this fall to decry the lax VMS security that had allowed them to penetrate 20 different SPAN systems in Europe and the United States. NASA officials said the Chaos hackers had a considerably inflated idea of the value and confidentiality of the information stored on the SPAN systems. The hackers were, however, able to exploit a flaw in the VMS access control system. DEC first learned of it last year, in late December, according to Andy Goldstein, a senior engineer in DEC's VMS group.