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...course your columnist Michelle Slatalla was joking when she wrote about needing to talk with her 58-year-old mother about going into a nursing home [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR FAMILY, June 5]. While I admire Slatalla's concern for her parents, and agree that as one approaches 60 it is wise to make some long-term plans, I hardly think that 58 is the right age at which to talk about a retirement home unless there are some serious health concerns. In this era, when people are living to a healthy and ripe old age, Slatalla is jumping...
...Slatalla is a freelance tech writer
JOSHUA QUITTNER, our tech columnist, has been an editor of our online TIME Daily time.com) He joined the magazine in 1994 after more than a decade as a newspaper reporter. He and his wife Michelle Slatalla have collaborated on three young, computer-savvy daughters as well as a new book, Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How It Challenged Microsoft. Quittner has a story on Netscape accompanying our Microsoft coverage this week, in addition to his Personal Time column showing readers how they can fight junk e-mail more effectively than can Congress...
Indeed he is. Quittner, 37, wrote his first story for TIME--on people in the U.S. returning their holiday computer gifts because they didn't work--a week before he was scheduled to report for duty. HarperCollins has just published his third book (written with his wife, Michelle Slatalla), Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace, about an on-line ``war'' between hacker gangs. Quittner, who got his first computer in 1979, has watched the interest in his field grow exponentially. ``People who used to be afraid of computers now can't seem to get enough of them...
That is probably what it was. Quittner and Slatalla had just finished a book , about the rivalry between a gang of computer hackers called the Masters of Deception and their archenemies, the Legion of Doom -- an excerpt of which appears in the current issue of Wired magazine. And as it turns out, Wired was mail-bombed the same day Quittner was -- with some 3,000 copies of the same nasty message from the I.L.F. Speculation on the Net at week's end was that the attacks may have been the work of the Masters of Deception -- some of whom have...