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...computer hacker named Virgil Griffith unleashed a clever little program onto the Internet that he dubbed WikiScanner. It's a simple application that trolls through the records of Wikipedia, the publicly editable Web-based encyclopedia, and checks on who is making changes to which entries. Sometimes it's people who shouldn't be. For example, WikiScanner turned up evidence that somebody from Wal-Mart had punched up Wal-Mart's Wikipedia entry. Bad retail giant...
...tracking suspects. A more complex forensic approach now available utilizes a command system developed in the late 1970s to initialize modems to ask the phone specific questions about the information it may be storing. Those commands, known as AT, were one of the tools 17-year-old hacker George Hotz used to unlock his iPhone from the AT&T network. "Coming into this project I didn't know that cell phones used AT commands," Hotz wrote on his blog last week, as he thanked his fellow hackers for their help...
...Marri's wife and kids in Peoria, Illinois, prefers the last option. A citizen of Qatar, al-Marri allegedly trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, palled around with Osama bin Laden and came to the U.S. on Sept. 10, 2001 as a "sleeper agent," a computer hacker bent on disrupting the American financial system. He was arrested at home three months later as a material witness in the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Marri denies any connection with al-Qaeda or terrorism, but constitutional issues aside, we might all rest easier if the military could just...
...with more self-direction and more funding than his high school. Surrounded by inspiring, like-minded people and given numerous resources, Ur blossomed creatively. He started designing sets himself rather than following directions from others.“I’ve always been kind of the closet computer hacker, engineer wannabe,” he says. “Being here really encouraged me to get more involved in the artistic side.”“Rather than like, ‘Hey let me see what someone else wants me to build...
...Still, it's amazing how many coaches just won't buy it. Another anti-hacker is Bucknell coach Pat Flannery, whose teams upset Kansas and Arkansas, respectively, in the '05 and '06 tournaments. He trains his defense to trap the good shooters, and doesn't want to risk a bad bounce on the second foul shot. "You've worked your tail off for over 39 minutes, and to foul at that point, for some people it's a great strategy, but for me, I'm too much of a Republican," he says. Meaning conservative, I assume? "Absolutely. Maybe there...