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Myers said the Heisenberg Uncertainly Principle implied that a hacker could not steal a key encoded in weak light waves en route to its destination without altering the key itself...
Catastrophic virus outbreaks had long been based on security holes in Windows, like last August’s Blaster worm. Current virus writers have realized that while security holes are fleeting, user gullibility is forever. This gullibility has enabled an international hacker war fought with all the drama of daytime television and all the maturity of an adults-only AOL chatroom infiltrated by sixth-graders...
While the puerile creators of Bagle, Netsky and others may eventually tire of their war, there will doubtless be many more to take their place. The demonstrated ease with which these socially-engineered viruses have spread is an tantalizingly simple way to achieve hacker immortality for anyone familiar with Visual C++ at the …for Dummies level and above. And with antivirus companies releasing new updates daily to combat new variants, even day-old protection files can damn computers to virus hell...
...fire will convince new and novice users that e-mail attachments aren’t necessarily friendly. Because if not, socially-engineered viruses with payloads that do more than open security holes—like payloads that delete files or steal passwords—could make the current hacker spat seem like a fond memory...
Cheney gave a reasonable answer to that one--the possibility of hacker terrorists getting into crucial defense-intelligence systems is serious business--but Rush was off to the races, laughing: "Well now, that explains a lot ..." And the Vice President played along: "Well ... he wasn't in the loop, frankly, on a lot of this stuff...