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JOHN DEUTCH Ex-CIA big surfed using secret-laden home PC. What can you get for Trident subs on eBay...
...once was, before the advent of the singles bar. There is plenty of conversation but no touching. With the computer serving as a chaperon, guaranteeing that no one gets too close, tastes are compared, as are family backgrounds, hopes and dreams. Much as sites such as Priceline and eBay encourage old-fashioned economic behavior--one bids, one negotiates, one doesn't pay retail--the dating sites serve as 19th century parlors where couples sit in chairs and chat. Even the word chat is slightly antique, recalling porch swings and glasses of iced...
...school, and then there are the insurgents. The former tends to view the latter with some suspicion, and perhaps a bit of jealousy. Such was the case Wednesday; establishment hackers are up in arms over the media attention paid to Monday and Tuesday's attacks on Yahoo, eBay, CNN and Buy.com. "We find that there are already ample words in the English language to describe such miscreants and call upon the media to define them by their actions, as they are all we know them by at this point," fumed the editors of 2600, The Hacker Quarterly...
...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...
Kimberly Kuebrich Yordi did not find Bill Bradley on eBay. That's where she found Holiday Barbie to add to her collection of 30 dolls. For the 39-year-old mother of three, her home-office computer was no place for politics. Then she learned about billbradley.com Last week she signed on, studied the candidate's positions and learned the arcane incantations necessary to vote for him at the Iowa caucuses. "I'm comfortable going to the caucus and not feeling inadequate about the person I am supporting," she says of the process she ducked in previous years. "I wouldn...