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...fact, the China Syndrome aspect of all this interconnected finance is among its most worrisome features. What if the whole nterconnected computer network crashes? (Hell, what if just your part does?) What if a hacker breaks in at the wrong place? What if the bank "blows up," as Barings PLC did in 1995 after 28-year-old Nicholas Leeson bet the house and lost? Industry insiders--the folks who have designed the systems--argue that the infrastructure they have built is secure enough to survive any tampering and that the markets themselves will factor in the risks of rogue...
...They're talking about a revolution -- "a long overdue revolution in the software industry," according to über-hacker Eric Raymond. Netscape's adoption of the open-source model, said Raymond, is "absolutely historically important. This is THE break that the open-source culture has been waiting for for 20 years." Judging from the reception Netscape 5.0 has gotten, the battle between Netscape and Microsoft for the soul of the Net -- the battle between Microsoft and every independent-minded developer everywhere -- is far from over...
...going to be so rich, it's not funny," he believed. Not that Zawinski cared about money. Though Silicon Valley is supposed to be the new Hollywood for programmers, where ambitious code-writing kids slave at start-ups with every expectation of retiring by supper, Zawinski is a hacker of the old school. He has always aspired to something grander: to change the world. At the top of his resume, he'd carefully spelled it out: "employment objective: To improve people's lives through software." Zawinski knew that from ones and zeros gorgeous cathedrals could grow, monuments to inspire...
Like a character in a William Gibson novel, the teenage hacker who calls himself Analyzer allegedly mounted a cyber-commando raid on Pentagon computers from central Israel, and then discussed his work online with his hacker pals...
...great computer hacker," the student says. "Anyone who thought about it for more than two minutes could...