Word: hacker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...workers for recognition of Kwanzaa, the black holiday, saying, "I'm still having trouble with Hanukkah." In one especially offensive passage, Ulrich carped that "niggers" were causing too much trouble. Tellingly, not one of the participants objected to the tone or substance of the talk. That, says psychologist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, is typical behavior among bigots who have no fear that their outrageous conduct will ever be known to the world outside their racist cocoon. "As a bona fide member of the Caucasian club, I can tell you that people talk...
...transformation that has set Microsoft on the road to a Net-based future has also completed Gates' beatification as not just a great hacker but also a world-class CEO. Microsoft's warp-speed reinvention may set the standard for information-age corporate agility. "I don't think you'd be interviewing me on this topic if we were any less nimble," Gates told Time. "You'd be writing our epitaph...
Anything that is truly confidential I would never post on the Net, or anywhere else for that matter. I would send it directly to the party I wanted to get the information. The Internet is like a big open playground, and the real professional hacker can get into just about anything. Never send anything over the Net that is highly sensitive. Never! The public at large may have access to it. RAY OLIVA Pleasanton, California...
...next thing I learned was that I was not alone. Thirty-five other Internet addresses were targeted last week, ranging from the prestigious president@whitehouse.gov to the evocative rage@us.disarray.com The victims included the New York Times' chief Silicon Valley reporter, two leading hacker magazines, a couple of interns at MTV and a man who once ran a Hell's Angels computer bulletin board. Gene Steinberg, a free-lance writer from Scottsdale, Arizona, is convinced that he made the hit list because he publicly defended America Online on a Usenet newsgroup called alt.aol.sucks...
...This is clearly someone who's got too much time on his hands," says hacker Emmanuel Goldstein, publisher of 2600 magazine, who got hit twice (in his letters and articles mailboxes) and would have been struck a third time if the perpetrator hadn't misspelled his name. Goldstein wrote a simple program that canceled most of his subscriptions. "It's like stepping in dog droppings," he says. "You change your shoes and get on with your...