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...world of Internet hacking, as in the world of rap music, there is the old school, and then there are the insurgents. The former tends to view the latter with some suspicion, and perhaps a bit of jealousy. Such was the case Wednesday; establishment hackers are up in arms over the media attention paid to Monday and Tuesday's attacks on Yahoo, eBay, CNN and Buy.com. "We find that there are already ample words in the English language to describe such miscreants and call upon the media to define them by their actions, as they are all we know them...
...Yahoo case is that it hasn't happened before," says Quittner. Now that e-vandals have flexed their muscles in a very public forum, bringing the world's most popular web site to a grinding halt, it's safe to say there will be increasingly creative attempts to foil hackers altogether. That will be a very tough, if not impossible process, says Quittner. "Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot companies can do to prevent this kind of strike." Of course, this is the world of high tech, where explosive growth and insight are part of the daily grind...
...invented by a Finnish college student named Linus Torvalds in 1991 as a scaled-down version of Unix, the standard operating system used in large mainframe computers. Linux caught on fast with programmers: It was fast, efficient and stable, and best of all, it was extensively customizable, so that hackers could modify and rejigger it exactly the way they wanted to. Torvalds' real stroke of genius, though, was to give Linux away for free, and to make its code open to all, so that any hacker anywhere in the world could improve it, add to it, and, when necessary...
...merchants and shoppers alike, there may be no greater fear than that of credit-card theft. And there is good reason. The idea that millions of credit-card numbers are being beamed to thousands of websites every day must be an irresistible lure to any hacker with a larcenous bent. Last week e-tailers were sweating over reports of an international cybertheft that for pure nerve, craft and brass rivals any ever tried before. If the FBI doesn't crack the case soon, skittish consumers, who had just started growing comfortable with the idea of Web shopping, could grow uncomfortable...
...Vladimir Putin, has no tolerance for Western interference but apparently feels free to accept Western dollars, spending $115 million on Russia's military. How long will it be before the U.S. is once again facing a hostile enemy prepared to wage war against it with U.S.-financed weapons? ADAM HACKER Nepean...