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...like stumbling into electronic quicksand: every attempt to escape only drew unsuspecting Net surfers, including children, more deeply into Web pages full of explicit sex. That lurid webscam, allegedly cooked up by a Portuguese hacker and an Australian company, was halted last week by a federal court after the Federal Trade Commission uncovered the brazen scheme. It worked like this: first, according to the FTC, the perpetrators replicated hundreds of legitimate websites, ranging from the Japanese Friendship Garden to the Harvard Law Review. By changing a single line of hidden software code, the culprits then ensured that any visitor calling...
...side looks paranoid, the other snooty. Neither is backing down. "Microsoft is using hacker tactics," says AOL vice president Barry Schuler. "This is what happens when they decide to own a market. It's shocking behavior." Microsoft's response: passwords are required only for access to AOL's IM server and aren't recorded by the software. "AOL just isn't educated on what our service does," says Microsoft Network product manager Rob Bennett...
What's going on here? Even the producers, programmers and performers responsible for presenting the hip-hop-culture-meets-computer-hacker show Netfiend, one of a hundred streaming video shows Webcast weekly by Internet start-up Pseudo.com can't tell you for sure. But they are thrilled to be here so deep into the night. Internet television is an unproved--and, for the moment, virtually unwatched--medium, yet the Netfiend crew is resolutely sure it is on the verge of something very big. So confident are Skat and Pseudo.com's 70 other employees of the vast potential of their still...
...might say the same for the G-men. Since few of the perpetrators are old enough to vote, the alarms issued out of Washington last week began to sound as hysterical as any hacker manifesto. The White House issued a stern warning--which to a teen who craves attention is like winning the self-esteem lottery--while websites at the departments of Defense, Energy and the Interior went off-line like fbi.gov ostensibly for repairs...
...hackers, as usual, say government webmasters have no one to blame but themselves; the notoriously sloppy security at gov websites has turned them into hacker magnets. "A lot of them are easier to get into than sites run by a 15-year-old," says Emmanuel Goldstein, editor of the hacker quarterly 2600. Commercial websites, he points out, regularly get hit by denial-of-service attacks. Few ever go down for more than a day; they can't afford...