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...simply have been the unfocused intellectual meanderings of a hacker completely absorbed with his creation and unharnessed by considerations of explicit purpose or potential effect," the panel wrote...
...astronomer originally started out in 1986 to find a 75-cent accounting error in his computer system. When he found that the extra charge was due to a mysterious hacker who had tapped into his system, he rigged his computer so that an electronic beeper would sound every time a hacker entered the system...
...before the Harvard semester begins, computer hacker Robert T. Morris '87-'88 breaks into the registration files and red dots the entire student population...
...whose hacker daring did inspire...
...over again. Five weeks after a computer-science graduate student forced the Defense Department to shut down , its Arpanet computer network by infecting it with a self-duplicating electronic virus, the Pentagon learned that one of its smaller military information systems, Milnet, had been broken into by an unknown hacker. Last week Mitre Corp., a Massachusetts-based defense contractor, warned the Pentagon that someone had gained unauthorized access to Mitre's system, which is linked to the Arpanet network. Fortunately, the invader had access only to nonclassified material, and none of it was damaged. Nevertheless, the Defense Department severed Milnet...