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...hand. The trouble began when a gH member named Eric Burns, who is suspected of hacking the White House home page, was indicted in Virginia on unrelated charges. In response, someone calling himself Israeli Ghost hit fbi.gov with a massive "denial of service" attack--a nasty form of info warfare in which a host site is flooded with requests (in this case, 600,000 per second) that paralyze it. Fbi.gov still hasn't recovered; FBI spokesmen say they're waiting for IBM to build them a better firewall...
...month, mistaking it for a Serbian military-supply building, State Department and Pentagon officials placed discreet phone calls to foreign missions in Washington. Could you please provide us, they asked, with the address of your embassy in the Yugoslav capital? The embassies were only too happy to supply the info. Some of the more wary foreign capitals, in fact, had phoned in the addresses to NATO immediately after the attack...
...give you a reason. Because it's hard--really hard--to get the direction right, even with all that great info and terrific execution. We have enjoyed the bull market of a lifetime, one that has seen the Dow go up more than 8,000 points, and yet every day thousands of issues go down or disappear or blow up. And while you hear periodically of the day trader who earns enough to retire, you don't hear about them any more than you do about lottery winners...
Though they are no substitute for parental supervision, blocking programs--NET NANNY, SURFWATCH and CYBERSITTER--can help keep your kids away from the raunchiest sites. But be warned: these programs can wreak havoc with your system software and may pass judgments you don't agree with (e.g., barring info on contraception). Another option is CYBER SNOOP, which creates a tamper-proof list of the sites your kids surf...
Harvard students both rush to investment banking info sessions and lambaste them in editorials. They speak ironically of "i-bankers" and long hours on The Street. The field, though, remains a mystery to most students--even to some who are planning to pack up and move south after graduation to spend 80 hours a week crunching numbers and pushing papers in a New York i-banking firm...