Word: hackers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supporters, who gathered last week to celebrate his release from prison, he's the first underground hero of the Information Age, the Robin Hood of cyberspace. Arrested two years ago in a federal crackdown on computer break-ins, he became a cause celebre among the Net intelligentsia: a master hacker jailed not only for what he did but also for what he knew...
...reported today. The paper said the teenager, known as "Datastream" among Internet users, was finally nabbed by U.S. investigators last July because he left his terminal connected to an American defense computer overnight. (Prosecutors will decide this month whether they can charge him, the paper said.) Said another British hacker, who told the Independent he'd seen Datastream's postings: "He kept detailed logs of communication traffic. He really couldn't believe his luck. The Americans thought he was a spy, but he told them he was just doing...
...November 30, I would like to iterate the purpose and the outcome of Professor Martin's speech. We all embrace the opportunity to hear several perspectives on various issues so that we can form opinions for ourselves. In light of this, the BSA sponsored events with political scientist Andrew Hacker, social psychologist Jeffrey Howards and Professor of Africans Studies Tony Martin, who offered individual responses to The Bell Curve...
That is probably what it was. Quittner and Slatalla had just finished a book , about the rivalry between a gang of computer hackers called the Masters of Deception and their archenemies, the Legion of Doom -- an excerpt of which appears in the current issue of Wired magazine. And as it turns out, Wired was mail-bombed the same day Quittner was -- with some 3,000 copies of the same nasty message from the I.L.F. Speculation on the Net at week's end was that the attacks may have been the work of the Masters of Deception -- some of whom have...
...Hacker's Dictionary, published by the MIT Press, defines ASCII art as: "the fine art of drawing diagrams using the ASCII character set, namely...