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...other fraudulent transactions to a post-office box in South Plainfield, N. J. Someone was using the box to take delivery of stereo and radar-detection equipment ordered through a computerized mail-order catalog. The trail led to a young New Jersey enthusiast who used the alias "New Jersey Hack Sack" and communicated regularly with other computer owners over a loosely organized network of electronic bulletin boards. A computer search of the contents of those boards by Detective George Green and Patrolman Michael Grennier, who is something of a hacker himself, yielded a flood of gossip, advice, tall tales...
Remember when lists used to be cool? Before VH1 cancelled all its original programming, hired a cadre of faux celebrities and hack comedians, and became the network for the acutely time warped...
...When Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid called Alan Greenspan a "political hack" last week, it was another illustration that the Fed Chairman?s near-oracle status has fallen victim to the rising partisanship in Washington. His support of Social Security private accounts was only the latest move to anger Democrats. Last month, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin said, "Mr. Greenspan lost his credibility when he endorsed the President's tax cuts." Republicans, not surprisingly, don't agree, and have been almost gleeful at Greenspan's endorsement of their plan for Social Security. "Nobody in government has more credibility than Greenspan...
James A. Gray, a spokesman for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, said that one applicant at the school had tried to hack into the system. Gray said the action would be a “black mark” on the applicant’s record...
...scam didn't hack ChoicePoint's network, Lee hastens to point out, a little disingenuously. Nothing so elaborate was necessary. The perp armed himself with phony letterheads and ordered electronic files by fax at $150 a batch. After a number of successful attempts, a ChoicePoint employee finally got wise and alerted police. When cops nabbed Olatunji Oluwatosin, 41, at a Copymat shop in Hollywood, he had five cell phones and three credit cards on him, each under different names. He has pleaded no contest to identity theft, but authorities say others must be involved, since the stolen data have been...