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More than one person has tried to take down the New York Times and lost. But last week a group of hackers calling themselves HFG--Hacking for Girlies--shut down the Times's website for nine hours. People trying to access the Times's Web page got instead a mixture of messages of support for imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick, nude pictures and some vituperation about CAROLYN MEINEL, a 50-year-old New Mexican who wrote The Happy Hacker, a book about the methods criminal hackers use, in which she compares them to terrorists. Meinel says every Internet-access provider...
...everyone in the country, centralize them, and assign us all tracking numbers. Pros: When you move, you won't have to go through the hassle of transferring your records; plus scientists will be able to follow the spread of contagious diseases much more effectively. Cons: Some 14-year-old hacker might find out about that embarassing gland condition...
...keep itself in the game, including a deal with search-engine firm Excite that will bring in $70 million over the next two years. But it's also been reduced to giving away its browser code for free in a last-ditch effort to enlist every anti-Microsoft hacker on the planet to do battle with Gates...
What gall! A hacker has evaded the Vatican's electronic defenses and impiously placed a message in the Pope's personal computer. The interloper begs the Holy Father to help save Seville's 17th century church of Our Lady of the Tears, threatened by the wrecker's ball. Who is this modem-armed intruder? And why should the Pontiff intervene to preserve a crumbling edifice with a handful of worshippers...
Until last week. A reporter at the online magazine Forbes Digital Tool tried to verify Glass's latest effort, the lovingly detailed story of a pimply 15-year-old computer hacker recruited by the corporation whose data network he had just penetrated. The piece features vivid characters (a "super-agent to the super-nerds," who is said to represent 300 hackers), a trade association called the National Assembly of Hackers and a California software firm called Jukt Micronics. None of it is real. When Digital Tool started asking questions, Glass created a phony corporate website for Jukt and a bogus...