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There has never been much love lost between geeks and G-men. But after a big software-piracy crackdown in 1990 generated more bad publicity than convictions, the feds have largely held their fire. The most famous exception is Kevin Mitnick, the "dark side" hacker who became a cybermartyr after languishing in jail for four years without trial. Mitnick eventually copped a plea; he is set to be sentenced next Monday...
...purpose of the hack was to protest the role Times reporter John. Markoff played in the imprisonment of hacker Kevin Mitnick...
...York Times and lost. But last week a group of hackers calling themselves HFG--Hacking for Girlies--shut down the Times's website for nine hours. People trying to access the Times's Web page got instead a mixture of messages of support for imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick, nude pictures and some vituperation about CAROLYN MEINEL, a 50-year-old New Mexican who wrote The Happy Hacker, a book about the methods criminal hackers use, in which she compares them to terrorists. Meinel says every Internet-access provider she has used has been attacked, but she was surprised...
Jonathan Littman has a reputation as a friend of the hackers, one of the few journalists covering the computer underground whom its denizens can trust. Two years ago, for instance, when the capture of America's best-known computer criminal, Kevin Mitnick, was front-page news, it was Littman who got the uber-hacker's inside, as-told-to story and wrote a book, The Fugitive Game, that was sympathetic to Mitnick. Since then, the telephone at the Littman home has rung at all hours of the night with digital oddfellas calling--often collect, from prison--just to chat...
MOST INDISCREET CAMPAIGN AIDE (besides Dick Morris): J.E. (Billy) McKinney, father of Cynthia A. McKinney, a Georgia Democrat running for the House, resigned as her adviser after invoking the Rev. Louis Farrakhan and calling her opponent, Republican John Mitnick, "a racist...