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...down TIME.com poll popularity into three categories of voting results: the thousands, the tens of thousands, and the hundreds of thousands (and up). It's simple statistical penetration: How many web users come to a posted poll before one of them happens to be a serious -- and seriously skilled -- hacker? A mild-mannered TIME Daily poll such as "No more Independent Counsels?" fell into the first category -- fewer than 2,000 votes in its first week -- and it tantalized no intruders...
...entertainment-industry consulting firm. "Morality is what the community consensus decides is morality. And they're a tribe of cannibals out there." A typical consumer is American University freshman Jaymin Patel. "I've had MP3s for about two years now," he says. "I first learned about them from a hacker friend who told me I'd never have to buy a CD again...
...disagree that these commands should be removed. By disabling commands, one reduces the ability of the network to function as intended. In addition, one can introduce a security hole in the system. For example, a hacker figures out my password and logs in to my account to run amok in the network. I use the "last" command to see when I last logged in, and I notice a location or time that I know I did not login. (One caveat--"last" only works on the current machine, for example, login4, so to be thorough, one must...
...Hackers are very competitive about trying to break into the most difficult systems. A hacker who is able to break into a very secure and protected system is respected and considered to be a better hacker...
...purpose of the hack was to protest the role Times reporter John. Markoff played in the imprisonment of hacker Kevin Mitnick...