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Then I--or should I say Joel?--hit the Internet. The great thing about controlling another person's computer is that you can surf the Web as if you were him or her. When you go to a site, his or her IP address--a kind of digital fingerprint--is the one that gets left behind, not yours...
...cyberspace. Whether you know it or not, your browser's "preferences" menu may include your name, e-mail address and other information that can be captured and stored by sites you visit. Your Internet Protocol address can also give you away. Every computer on the Internet is assigned an IP address, the online equivalent of a street address, that allows it to receive data. Dial-up connections usually assign you a new IP address every time you connect. But if you use a fixed connection (like DSL or cable), you may have a permanent IP address that any website...
...does: Makes a chip designed to power a broad range of mobile Internet devices as well as global positioning satellite and Bluetooth, a technology that allows devices to communicate within a 10-m radius Why it is hot: Licensing and royalty revenues are rising because the benefits of licensing IP platforms, including lower costs and faster time to market, are more compelling in an increasingly competitive market www.parthus.com...
...hadn't got a single ping. So much for the great home-hacking threat. But the next morning there was a pop-up on my screen. A "remote procedure call" had come in overnight from an anonymous computer with an 11-digit IP address. The firewall blocked it. Since then, hardly a day has gone by without one and sometimes 10 or more attempts by outsiders to get into my hard drive...
...these guys, and what do they want? It turns out that the domain names and IP addresses that show up in the log may not belong to the people doing the dirty work. Hackers often commandeer other people's computers or ISPs to mask what they...