Word: hacker
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...started innocuously enough: a credit card customer in Connecticut opened his monthly statement and noticed a charge for a piece of electronic equipment that he had never purchased. By last week that apparent billing error had blossomed into a full-fledged hacker scandal and led to the arrest of seven New Jersey teenagers who were charged with conspiracy and using their home computers and telephone hookups to commit computer theft...
...between the guys." Mickelson apologized, but the bad blood spilled over to last fall's Ryder Cup, at which U.S. captain Hal Sutton paired Woods and Mickelson against European opponents. Although teammates, they could barely look at each other. It didn't help that Mickelson played like a Sunday hacker; when he sliced an 18th-hole drive into an impossible lie, Woods grimaced in disgust. But the dysfunctional dynamic is a gift for the tour. When the pair went shot for shot at the Ford championship on a Sunday in early March (Woods won by a stroke), NBC's year...
...March 2, a hacker posted instructions on Business Week Online’s technology forum detailing how applicants could try to view their admissions status early by logging in and altering...
...Internet was built up by people who lived and breathed the hacker ethic -- students at Berkeley and M.I.T., researchers at AT&T Bell Laboratories, computer designers at companies such as Apple and Sun Microsystems. "If there is a soul of the Internet, it is in that community," says Mark Stahlman, president of New Media Associates, a research firm in New York City...
...policing. Anybody who got out of line was shouted down or shunned. But now that the population of the Net is larger than that of most European countries, those informal rules of behavior are starting to break down. The Internet is becoming Balkanized, and where the mainstream culture and hacker culture clash, open battles are breaking out. Canter and Siegel may head the most- hated list, but they are hardly alone...