Word: hackers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CUMBer out seeking cleverness in the Ivy League," wrote the hacker in a message posted to the bulletin board...
More than one person has tried to take down the New York Times and lost. But last week a group of hackers calling themselves HFG--Hacking for Girlies--shut down the Times's website for nine hours. People trying to access the Times's Web page got instead a mixture of messages of support for imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick, nude pictures and some vituperation about CAROLYN MEINEL, a 50-year-old New Mexican who wrote The Happy Hacker, a book about the methods criminal hackers use, in which she compares them to terrorists. Meinel says every Internet-access provider...
...everyone in the country, centralize them, and assign us all tracking numbers. Pros: When you move, you won't have to go through the hassle of transferring your records; plus scientists will be able to follow the spread of contagious diseases much more effectively. Cons: Some 14-year-old hacker might find out about that embarassing gland condition...
...keep itself in the game, including a deal with search-engine firm Excite that will bring in $70 million over the next two years. But it's also been reduced to giving away its browser code for free in a last-ditch effort to enlist every anti-Microsoft hacker on the planet to do battle with Gates...
What gall! A hacker has evaded the Vatican's electronic defenses and impiously placed a message in the Pope's personal computer. The interloper begs the Holy Father to help save Seville's 17th century church of Our Lady of the Tears, threatened by the wrecker's ball. Who is this modem-armed intruder? And why should the Pontiff intervene to preserve a crumbling edifice with a handful of worshippers...