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...Reaction against affirmative action has been growing for a long time,'' says Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations, the widely cited study of race in the U.S. ``Even among liberals there is a feeling of weariness.'' While accepting that affirmative action may be a redress for centuries of discrimination against blacks and women, Americans have grown suspicious of what it can become in practice. In a TIME/CNN poll of 800 adults taken last month, 77% thought that it sometimes or frequently discriminates against whites. Even among black respondents, 66% answered the same...
...Hacker Kevin Mitnick was ordered held without bond by a federal magistrate in Raleigh, N.C. Mitnick was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh and faces up to 35 years in prison and $500,000 in fines if he is convicted of computer fraud and illegal use of a telephone device. Mitnick appeared before the magistrate in shackles and waived his right to a probable cause and bond hearing. The FBI says that Mitnick's online exploits included breaking into computer systems to steal 20,000 credit card numbers belonging to subscribers of Netcom, an internet provider...
...arrest yesterday of Kevin Mitnick ? described as the world''s most notorious computer hacker ? raises troubling new questions about commercial interactions in cyberspace, says TIME technology writer Josh Quittner. Mitnick, 31, was able over the years to hack into various computer systems and get access to privileged information from big-name companies like Digital, Motorola and NEC. He also obtained a copy of credit card numbers of 20,000 members of Netcom, a San Jose-based Internet provider. "If Netcom can''t keep those numbers secure, how can L.L. Bean?" says Quittner. Most troubling is the fact Mitnick...
...returning their holiday computer gifts because they didn't work--a week before he was scheduled to report for duty. HarperCollins has just published his third book (written with his wife, Michelle Slatalla), Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace, about an on-line ``war'' between hacker gangs. Quittner, who got his first computer in 1979, has watched the interest in his field grow exponentially. ``People who used to be afraid of computers now can't seem to get enough of them,'' he says. ``Writing about this stuff has become very mainstream.'' We're happy Josh is around...
Phiber says he had no interest in anything so venal. He adheres to a self- styled "hacker ethic," which justifies any computer intrusion as long as the motive is pure. In his mind, he was studying the phone system as an architecture student would the floor plan for a cathedral: as a thing of beauty. Still, when Secret Service agents began investigating telephone- company complaints, they found his digital footprints everywhere. During one six-month period, according to Secret Service logs, he broke into AT&T computers in Chicago and Portland, Maine, 69 times...