Word: hacker
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While the biggest hacker attack in Web history loomed like a tsunami on the virtual horizon last Monday, Alan Hannan was looking for nothing more dangerous than soda and cookies in a San Jose, Calif., hotel lobby. Like hundreds of techies who help keep the backbone of the Internet properly aligned, Hannan had spent the morning at the North American Network Operators' Group conference listening to a talk on something called denial-of-service (DOS) attacks. "I thought I knew about them well enough," says Hannan. "I didn't pay much attention. I wish...
...center is an acknowledgment that the federal government is going to act more as jailkeeper than patrolman in policing the Internet. The major leads in the case so far, which have zeroed in on a sophisticated West Coast-based cyber-vandal, a copycat in Canada and a German hacker, have been produced by either private firms or web surfers...
...world of Internet hacking, as in the world of rap music, there is the old 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...
...Yahoo case is that it hasn't happened before," says Quittner. Now that e-vandals have flexed their muscles in a very public forum, bringing the world's most popular web site to a grinding halt, it's safe to say there will be increasingly creative attempts to foil hackers altogether. That will be a very tough, if not impossible process, says Quittner. "Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot companies can do to prevent this kind of strike." Of course, this is the world of high tech, where explosive growth and insight are part of the daily grind...
...invented by a Finnish college student named Linus Torvalds in 1991 as a scaled-down version of Unix, the standard operating system used in large mainframe computers. Linux caught on fast with programmers: It was fast, efficient and stable, and best of all, it was extensively customizable, so that hackers could modify and rejigger it exactly the way they wanted to. Torvalds' real stroke of genius, though, was to give Linux away for free, and to make its code open to all, so that any hacker anywhere in the world could improve it, add to it, and, when necessary...