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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...
...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...
...decided to find out. So a few weeks ago, I installed Norton's Personal Firewall. (Other leading brands include Network Ice's Black Ice Defender and Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm 2.1.) The software promised to block outsiders from getting into my computer and to keep a log of the IP address or domain name of everybody who tried...
...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...