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...latest in a string of security breaches to the University's computing systems, a hacker broke into the system which hosts the e-mail accounts in the "wjh" domain--including accounts belonging to members of the psychology and sociology departments...
...million into state coffers. "When the news leaked out," reports TIME Los Angeles correspondent Dave Jackson, "it caused an immediate backlash here." Proponents of the program point out that individuals would have to give their consent before their income information is revealed, but critics doubt the safeguards. "Recent computer hacker incidents don?t help inspire much confidence," says Jackson...
...computer simulation: it is, Morpheus says, "the world that has been pulled over your eyes" by some creepezoid machines that look like spidery octopi. Who can free a mankind that doesn't know it's enslaved? Morpheus believes the cybermessiah is Neo (Keanu Reeves), a computer hacker. Early in the film Morpheus offers two pills to Neo. Take the blue one, you wake up and remember nothing. Take the red pill, "you stay in Wonderland. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...
...feeling uncharacteristically sensitive, I manage a tiny empathetic shudder for Microsoft. The company is getting pummeled every which way. At the top, it's taking a shellacking from the Justice Department, which has effectively painted it as the slickest monopoly since Standard Oil. At the bottom, the hacker underground is attacking it with viruses like Melissa and Happy99.exe. And at Microsoft's very core, its next-generation operating system, Windows 2000, is MIA. The long-promised Windows overhaul, due months ago, might not even reach consumers by the millennium. The company has apparently just discovered that home users...
...forces of law and order have already made a powerful point. Time was when virus writers were able to act with impunity and bask in the glow of hacker fame. Now the same technology that allowed their work to spread so freely is being used to catch them. The irony was not lost on Spanska, creator of the Happy99 virus. "The perfect virus writer should not communicate with nobody," he wrote last week. He plans to disconnect his e-mail for a while and "think a little." The Melissa case should give him and his pals plenty of food...