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...There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate any plastic pocket protector and jump-start the most shriveled hacker's heart beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . THE NET | 7/21/1995 | See Source »

...Clinton Administration today proposedcreating a new federal agency to police the "information superhighway."The Wall Street Journal reports that the new federal entity would respond to hacker intrusions that have undermined faith in thesecurity of electronic information and transactions, particularly as financial, transportation and other systems become almost exclusively electronic. The proposal, from a governmentwide task force called the National Information Infrastructure Forum, would train officials to respond to security "emergencies" andpush for encryption standardsthat government and industry could share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETWATCH . . .I-WAY PATROL | 6/14/1995 | See Source »

...curious as to whether he had access toHarvard databanks," Yee said. "After all, thelabels were all printed. And if this person workedin some office with access to these databanks, orif he were a hacker, it would be very easy tobreak into them...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Undergraduate Men Receive Mysterious Mail | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place he helped popularize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACK TO THE REAL WORLD | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

Cyber bandits keep probing nonetheless. TIME has learned that CIA security officers have caught at least half a dozen agency employees and contractors who on a lark have tried to hack parts of the agency's computer system that are closed off to them. A hacker from Canada almost daily tries to break past the CIA's Internet link to get to the agency's secret files. He once used the password "Clinton," thinking that would give him access to any secret. It didn't. "We know who he is," a CIA official said with a smile. "But there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES IN CYBERSPACE | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

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