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...hacker ran a program over the Internet that gave him root, or universal, access to my machine. This allowed the hacker to start a packet sniffer to gather people's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passwords when they logged into the network," the resident said...
Although data transmission on mobile phones is currently limited to a relatively slow 9.6 kbps, the European telecom industry should receive a huge boost next year with the arrival of an enhanced GSM system: General Packet Radio Service, or GPRS, will boost transmission speeds to 150 kbps--faster than a high-speed ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) computer line. Consolidating their lead in the global race in mobile telephony, most European operators will begin to add the feature next year...
...session with her disappeared; he claims they were stolen. "I sat down on the bed and practically cried," he says. "It was nearly all the photos for a book I was working on." He called the police and the press and put up a reward, and he got a packet with most of them from a construction worker who said he'd found them. Now, 18 years later, the rest have shown up. A New York collectibles dealer, Al Schrimm, says they were in a box he bought at a flea market. He has supplied some to a few publications...
Like letters at the post office, each packet is individually addressed. IP tells the network how to read the packets and where to send them. Unlike a traditional phone call, which sets up a circuit between two phones (think of the 1930s operator plugging wires into jacks), IP allows phone carriers simply to throw the packets onto a network, where they will be sorted and delivered by any one of thousands of machines (called routers), just as if they were postcards at a post office...
Haven't we seen this somewhere before? Federal agents search the Montana cabin of a loner charged with killing government officials and turn up, among other items, a bottle of gunpowder, books with titles like "Don't Bug Me" and a mysterious envelope marked "CIA packet." This was not the Unabomber's shack, but the Rimini, Mont., home of accused Capitol killer Russell Weston. Details of a recent FBI raid there were unsealed by a federal court late Monday, but the details were sketchy enough to allow for a certain amount of suspense...