Word: denialism
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...protective of their reputation, longtime hackers are locked in a love-hate relationship with web site designers, who grudgingly appreciate hackers' talent for pinpointing serious security lapses. "Hacking is generally accepted to be the arena of very smart people," says Stuart McClure, president of Rampart Security Group in Irvine. "Denial of service attacks, like what happened to Yahoo and eBay, are seen as bottom-of-the-barrel assaults; they don't require a lot of brains...
...cyber equivalent of a "Kilroy was here" scrawl. This week's attacks, on the other hand, bombarded various high-traffic sites with an overflow of information, effectively shutting down normal operations. How do the perpetrators send so much data so quickly? Apparently, the most recent assaults are not typical denial of service pranks, which generally are sent from only one or two computers at a time. "These people scan the Internet for vulnerable systems, and they hack into those systems, and then use hundreds of those computers, remotely, to send the attack," says McClure...
...Edelman said he has not been given a specific explanation for the denial of his application...
...This was a denial-of-service attack," says TIME digital editor Joshua Quittner, "which means that the server gets so clogged with the false requests that it can't deal with legitimate inquiries. It's akin to calling someone and hanging up constantly so they can never get a real phone call." And while this relatively simple method of attack has been around for years, Quittner adds, the sheer breadth of the Yahoo assault could suggest a new, if belated, sophistication in the world of high-tech vandalism. The Yahoo case wasn't technically hacking, since the attack was carried...
...University has a stake in free speech that goes beyond the interests of its members," he wrote. "Its integrity as an institution is bound up in the maintenance of this freedom and each denial of the right to speak diminishes the university itself in some measure...