Word: hackers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clack of the keyboard as Internet connects them to their faraway, spiritual halves. Yet somehow, this mode of communication seems to lack a true personal touch, a romantic passion. Perhaps it is the constant, invasive hum of the terminals and the harsh florescent lights. Or the horde of computer hacker sitting in the other seats. In any case, Eliot House Drama Society's production of Love Letters attempts to retrieve that missing element. Its response to the modern malaise is the resurrection of a lost art, the practice of real letter-writing...
...Hacker Closes Rice Network...
...hacker's attack last month forced Rice University to shut down its student computer network and to sever its link to the Internet...
Kevin B. Long, director of computing services at Rice, said the hacker's assault was so sophisticated that the system had to be shut down...
Actually, a hacker of this kind is unlikely to deem it worth his time to break into your account by spending hours if not days in an attempt to "crack" your password. What such hackers love to do is to get the "super-user" privilege on a UNIX system such as the ones Harvard uses so that they can play God on the victimized system...