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...feel the silky click of computer keys. He glanced over at Tsutomu Shimomura, the computer-security expert whose extraordinarily well-guarded personal computer Mitnick had allegedly broken into on Christmas Day. Shimomura, playing Pat Garrett to Mitnick's Billy the Kid, had taken his revenge by tracking the wily hacker across cyberspace-through the Internet, through local and long-distance phone companies and at least two cellular-phone carriers-until he finally traced him to his hideout in an apartment complex in Raleigh, North Carolina. And so there they stood last week, hunter and hunted, face to face...
Across the country, computer-network security experts, though, were talking a lot last week, calling the entire Mitnick affair a watershed moment-not for what it proves about the hacker but for what it says about the systems he hacked. At a time when American businesses are frantic to set up shop on the computer networks, those networks-and the telecommunications systems that carry their traffic-are turning out to be terminally insecure. One of the things Mitnick is believed to have stolen from Shimomura's computer is a set of utility programs-the electronic equivalent of a locksmith...
...Payback (Billy Warlock) is "a hero for the common man--part man, part machine--programmed to seek outrageous justice for his clients against those who have done them wrong." An opening sequence introduces viewers to our hero and his attractive hacker sidekick Gwen (Holly Fields). Mr. Payback states his motto, "Don't piss me off!" and his mission, to rectify the evils of society. Then viewers choose from three plot lines, each one more politically correct than the last. In one, a woman has been sexually harrassed; in another, a black man has been fired form his job and cheated...
...point along the way, a crafty hacker might be able to piece together packets of information comprising your e-mail message and then reconstruct the original message. Don't ask me how this is done because I have no bloody clue. But it has been done in the past. So that love note you sent to Philippe in Jonathan Edwards College may have been deviously intercepted and read by Jacques, your ex at Brown...
...Reaction against affirmative action has been growing for a long time,'' says Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations, the widely cited study of race in the U.S. ``Even among liberals there is a feeling of weariness.'' While accepting that affirmative action may be a redress for centuries of discrimination against blacks and women, Americans have grown suspicious of what it can become in practice. In a TIME/CNN poll of 800 adults taken last month, 77% thought that it sometimes or frequently discriminates against whites. Even among black respondents, 66% answered the same...