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...evening on Monday April 25, the Harvard Computer Society (HCS, an organization of which, for full disclosure, I am a board member and a system administrator) web server received a request that looked just about like any other—a computer with address 201.13.123.109 (located somewhere in Brazil) was asking for an old web page buried somewhere within a largely defunct HCS alumni web site...
...clear that the operator of this computer wasn’t actually after information about the computer society’s illustrious alums; rather, he’d found a hole in the code behind the web page, a way to run programs on HCS’s server. He made quick work of defacing our home page, replacing it with a spartan battle flag (still visible online at http://hcs.harvard.edu/hackedindex.shtml) announcing that “Unknown Core Own3d Harvard.” “Brazil rlz,” the attackers noted...
...hours. If a computer attempting to do this is near a device broadcasting erroneous IP addresses—in the same House, for example—one of these “fake” IP addresses typically reaches that computer before a valid address from the network server does, Davis said...
...about losers in a competitive society. Gaddis reveals his characters in snatches of dialogue: "--Will you listen to me? Trying to tell you they're taking you to court here, anybody comes to the door don't open it. Stumpp serving a summons on you some seedy process server comes to the door tell them a mile away, some down at the heels hopeless looking bastard they get seven dollars a summons he has to hand it to you, has to touch you with it, see some burnt out case out here on the doorstep you open...
According to Greenspan, the exporting feature could have been programmed in such a way that the sensitive files would not have been deposited on a server...