Word: hackers
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With the growth of the Internet as a major form of communication, millions of people across the world can now exchange ideas and transmit information via computer in a matter of seconds. However, the recent spate of hacker-related incidents at Harvard, and throughout the world, have students and administrators worried about the security of the Internet...
Nearly two months ago, a hacker used the computer of an Eliot House resident to gain access to the user names and passwords of other Eliot House residents...
...actual hacking of a Web site is, in actuality, not an extremely complicated process. For the hacker, the only obstacle is getting the password for the root user to the server...
...those who haven't read Raymond's excellent New Hacker's Dictionary, is geek for "fear, uncertainty and doubt"--a trick invented by IBM and perfected by Microsoft for scaring people away from a competitor's product...
Torvalds, like many self-made hacker heroes--and, for that matter, Bill Gates--was drawn to computers at an early age. He's been programming since he was 10 (what else are you going to do in Finland if you hate ice hockey?), when Granddad brought home a Commodore VIC-20 and recruited Linus to be his "right-hand man." Linus immediately started using the VIC-20 to write his own computer games...