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Another wrinkle: once the initial attack (wherever it may have originated) was under way, it's entirely possible that other, unconnected hackers joined the fray. "If you're a hacker, and you see something like that going on, you can use the opportunity to test out your capabilities, masking them under the original attack," says Roger Baker, East Asia analyst at Stratfor, a global intelligence company. (Read a brief history of cybercrime...
...recently that starting July 1, all computers sold in China would be required to have pornography-filtering software pre-installed. The news caused outrage among Chinese computer users, many of whom complained that the software, called Green Dam Youth Escort, was ineffective and would expose users to viruses and hacker attacks. Meanwhile, a U.S. company, Solid Oak Software, alleged that the program had illegally incorporated parts of its proprietary software...
Word to those who think the Internet spells the end of traditional print media: "hacker journalists" have arrived to save the day. (Read "The State of the Media: Not Good...
...website to accompany investigative reports and present data to readers in formats such as searchable databases and interactive charts. "The forms of journalism might be changing, but the role of the media to inform the public and hold government accountable remains the same," says Boyer, who coined the term "hacker journalist" to describe this new breed of newsman. "That's where technologists can help...
...Boyer, the original hacker journalist, prefers to put it differently, likening the paradigm shift to the old adage that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. "If the source of the tumult in the news business is technology," he says, "then journalism needs more nerds...