Word: panix
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Verve Pipe 2. Mr. Serv-on 3. Tool 4. Le Click 5. Ginuwine 6. Prodigy 7. MindSpring 8. Infoasis 9. Drizzle 10. Panix...
Rosen, 30, is a cool customer, not the type to go into cardiac arrest when his mail server crashes. He is the co-founder of Panix, the oldest and best-known Internet service provider in Manhattan. Years before the Net became a cereal-box buzz word, Rosen would let people connect to Panix free, or for only a few dollars a month, just because--well, because that was the culture of the time. Rosen has handled plenty of mail outages, so on this occasion he simply rolled up his sleeves and set to work, fingers clacking out a flamenco...
...dread "syn flood," a relatively simple but utterly effective means for shutting down an Internet service provider--or, for that matter, anyone else on the Net. After Panix went public with its story two weeks ago, dozens of online services and companies acknowledged being hit by similar "denial of service" attacks. As of late last week, seven companies were still under furious assault...
...these days: too many powerful software tools in the hands of people who aren't smart enough to build their own--or to use them wisely. Real hackers may be clever and prankish, but their first rule is to do no serious harm. Whoever is clobbering independent operators like Panix has as much to do with hacking as celebrity stalkers have to do with cinematography. Another of the victims was the Voters Telecommunications Watch, a nonprofit group that promotes free speech online. "Going after them was like going after the little old lady who helps people in the neighborhood...
...that figure does not include military computers that for security reasons are invisible to other users, or the hundreds of people who may share a single Internet host. Nor does it include millions more who dial into the Internet through the growing number of commercial gateways, such as Panix and Netcom, which offer indirect telephone access for $10 to $20 a month. When all these users are taken into account, the total number of people around the world who can get into the Internet one way or another may be 20 million. "It's a large country," says Farber...
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