Word: hacker
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...malt beverages lure underage drinkers to the hard stuff, as critics say? "The ads feature heavy party scenes with lots of quick, MTV-inspired movements and things that adults wouldn't do," says George Hacker of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer-advocacy group. "Themes of rebellion and getting around authority subtly suggest underage drinking." But in June the Federal Trade Commission found no evidence that these ads target minors. And spirit makers insist that they advertise responsibly on shows watched mostly by adults...
...networks in San Francisco these days that I was able to drive through most of the city without ever going out of range (the whole time with a souped-up Pringles can attached to my laptop; more on that later). The practice is called war driving--after the old hacker game of war dialing, which is what Matthew Broderick was doing in War Games but with far fewer unintended consequences. Indeed, many of your neighbors will happily post the location of their network on the Web--effectively inviting you to piggyback on their connection...
...surprised it didn't happen sooner. "If I had done something illegal, that would have been more than enough time to get rid of any evidence," he says. ?kokrim claims that Johansen violated laws aimed at those who illegally access other people's computers. "We see this as a hacker case," says ?kokrim chief prosecutor Inger Marie Sunde. Yes, he owned the DVDs, but "he broke a protective device in order to gain access to computer data." Perhaps, says Johansen's lawyer, Halvor Manshaus, but that's not illegal under Norwegian law. Copyright statutes even allow copying...
...their biggest nightmare - and that of their counterparts in Western Europe and the U.S. - is digital attack. "This, unfortunately, is the future face of terrorism," says Dmitri Chepchugov, head of Directorate R. So far, politically motivated computer attacks have been irritations or embarrassments rather than full-blown catastrophes. Chinese hackers attacked some 1,200 sites, including the White House, the Department of Energy and the Air Force, defacing some sites and putting others temporarily out of service, during a standoff with Washington over a spy plane last year. Russians and Eastern Europeans did the same during the war in Kosovo...
When we last visited the Matrix, computers had taken over the planet and imprisoned the human race in a computer-generated "reality." Keanu Reeves played Neo, a hacker turned superhero recruited to save his fellow man, and the movie ended with him literally taking flight. It was a cliff-hanger that might as well have been subtitled "Watch for the sequel, coming soon to a theater near you--that is, if this thing makes any money...