Word: serveral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common misconception about hackers is that their sole intent is to defraud other people. However, there are those who hack purely for the challenge and the enjoyment of it. They generally do not have any malicious intent further than pranking the server they break into and perhaps turning some heads...
...prime example is the recent hack of the Harvard Lampoon's Web site by a Columbia University Marching Band member. No real permanent damage was done to the server on which the Lampoon's Web page resides, and the student's main goal was simply to play a joke on the Lampoon...
...actual hacking of a Web site is, in actuality, not an extremely complicated process. For the hacker, the only obstacle is getting the password for the root user to the server...
...that Case may soon discover that Netscape is a double-edged sword. AOL's old mandate was simple: get as many people as possible onto its service. Now that it's a sprawling, vertically integrated e-commerce company, nasty intramural conflicts are inevitable. When Jeff Bezos upgrades Amazon.com's server software, for instance, will he buy it from AOL, which is the host for arch-competitor Barnes & Noble? Will the Internet service providers who compete with AOL choose Navigator as their browser, and thus enrich their fiercest rival? How will McNealy feel when AOL creates enterprise tools...
...million more than expected -- which, considering Netscape's dire financial straits, is no small potatoes. Netscape shareholders get a healthy 0.45 AOL shares per Netscape share. The company's CEO, Jim Barksdale, gets a seat on AOL's board. And with Sun Microsystems helping out on the server software front, cyberspace has a coalition large enough to contain the mighty Microsoft...