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...rule, computer geeks might best be described as laid-back libertarians--they don't like laws encroaching on their territory, but they're usually too busy to care. Sklyarov's arrest changed all that. Since the DMCA makes it a criminal offense merely to make the tools that some hacker might use to crack security on a copyrighted document, hundreds of programmers suddenly feared they might also fall afoul of it. "I've been a programmer for 10 years, and this is the kind of thing you have to do all the time," says Evan Prodromou, one of the organizers...
Back Orifice is freely available online, along with newer hackware like SubSeven. There are sites like hack.co.za and astalavista.box.sk that hold a hacker's hand as he plans an assault on your computer. And there are mailing lists like BugTraq that offer up the latest viruses. As a hacker posted at astalavista.box.sk: "Nowadays, every idiot knowing how to press buttons is able to take control over your computer if you are not careful...
...Barcelona, historically the unofficial capital of European anarchism. The Internet has long been home turf for the anti-globalization movement, which uses electronic organizing methods to rally cosmopolitan crowds for protest events in different cities around the world. The venue shift is all but an invitation to every hacker of vaguely anarchic bent to show that electronic disruption can be even more effective than the insurrectionist tactics of the street. Indeed, a World Bank spokesman conceded that "we've taken reasonable precautions, but if there is a major effort to close us down, I can't promise that the computers...
...drop this already - on both sides."The first superpower cyberwar lasted nine days. By its end, more than 2,000 websites in China and the U.S. lay defaced: Chinese e-mail bombs had briefly blown the White House home page to overload hell and "hegemony" had entered the popular hacker vocabulary. The Chinese side plastered homages to Wang Wei, the fighter pilot lost at sea after a collision with a U.S. surveillance plane, on government, media and company sites across America. Pro-U.S. hackers promptly returned his image, retouched to show Wang wearing fuchsia lipstick, mauve eye shadow...
Director of Admissions Marilyn McGrath-Lewis ’70-’73 said the hacker had been identified, but declined to comment on the person’s identity...