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...surprised it didn't happen sooner. "If I had done something illegal, that would have been more than enough time to get rid of any evidence," he says. ?kokrim claims that Johansen violated laws aimed at those who illegally access other people's computers. "We see this as a hacker case," says ?kokrim chief prosecutor Inger Marie Sunde. Yes, he owned the DVDs, but "he broke a protective device in order to gain access to computer data." Perhaps, says Johansen's lawyer, Halvor Manshaus, but that's not illegal under Norwegian law. Copyright statutes even allow copying...
...their biggest nightmare - and that of their counterparts in Western Europe and the U.S. - is digital attack. "This, unfortunately, is the future face of terrorism," says Dmitri Chepchugov, head of Directorate R. So far, politically motivated computer attacks have been irritations or embarrassments rather than full-blown catastrophes. Chinese hackers attacked some 1,200 sites, including the White House, the Department of Energy and the Air Force, defacing some sites and putting others temporarily out of service, during a standoff with Washington over a spy plane last year. Russians and Eastern Europeans did the same during the war in Kosovo...
When we last visited the Matrix, computers had taken over the planet and imprisoned the human race in a computer-generated "reality." Keanu Reeves played Neo, a hacker turned superhero recruited to save his fellow man, and the movie ended with him literally taking flight. It was a cliff-hanger that might as well have been subtitled "Watch for the sequel, coming soon to a theater near you--that is, if this thing makes any money...
...evening last week, residents of the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun thought they were about to watch a special about their rubber-stamp parliament in Beijing. They got some special programming all right?brought to them by the Falun Gong movement, Public Enemy No. 1 of the Chinese state. Hacker devotees had spliced their way into the cable system in Changchun, birthplace of Falun Gong founding guru Li Hongzhi, and broadcast to as many as 300,000 households. Stunned city officials held an emergency meeting and swore to punish followers "with no leniency"?but the damage was done...
...Many sites don’t encrypt Webmail, which means your password and all your e-mail are travelling in clear text, and any hacker can get at them,” Davis wrote in an e-mail to the Winthrop House e-mail list...