Word: siting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general technology, allowing the secure transmission of any information that is meant to be safe from prying Internet eyes. It is SSL, for example, that secures the transmission of the course grades you can retrieve from the Harvard Registrar's on-line site, thus making sure that your nosy computer-geek roommate has no way of knowing how you did in Expos...
...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...
...logging in as root, a person gains universal access to do whatever they want to the files on that server. For hackers, this generally entails first changing passwords, so that only they can gain access to the server, and then altering the site, while taking care to delete all the logs that might be used later on to identify them...
...could build fast because he had broken down the construction process into 27 operations, then mustered specialized teams to repeat each operation at each building site. Twenty acres were set aside as an assembly point, where cement was mixed and lumber cut. Trucks would deliver parts and material to homesites placed at 60-ft. intervals. Then the carpenters, tilers, painters and roofers arrived, each in his turn. There was a team for white paint, another for red. One worker's sole daily task was to bolt washing machines to floors...