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...hacker ran a program over the Internet that gave him root, or universal, access to my machine. This allowed the hacker to start a packet sniffer to gather people's Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) passwords when they logged into the network," the resident said...
...plastic surgery are not absolutely predictable. My father often spoke of a doctor cousin who, having decided to try his hand at beautifying noses, did a few teenagers successfully and then, after unwrapping the bandages of an older patient, watched in horror as the tip of the gorgeous new sniffer slowly began to droop toward the patient's chin...
...around Snipers Alley, a long stretch of road known for its wartime shootouts that the Pope will travel on his way from the airport Saturday afternoon. While Bosnian authorities will take responsibility for the Pope's daily security, NATO-led peacekeeping forces have dispatched anti-sniper teams and explosive-sniffer dogs to the city and set up a joint emergency center with police. The ultimate test of these security precautions comes on Sunday when the Pope, speaking in Serbo-Croatian, will address as many as 60,000 Catholic pilgrims at a mass in Kosevo Stadium. Many of the pilgrims traveling...
...Internet address of a trusted or "friendly" machine. It's much easier to exploit security holes from inside a system than from outside; the trick is to gain "root" status, the top-level access that the computer's administrator enjoys. With root status, a hacker could install a password sniffer or bogus software, like a "back door"-a secret return path into the machine. Mitnick was able to break into Shimomura's Fort Knox-like computer using a spoof...
...Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama--even from members of his own Socialist Party. Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U.N. and the World Health Organization poured in, but some were subjectedto endless bureaucratic wrangling. Examples: foreign doctors were rebuffed at first because they did not have Japanese licenses; Swiss sniffer dogs were threatened with quarantine by the Agriculture Ministry. Conditions in the stricken port city, however, are improving, with 18,600 emergency housing units under way, thousands of workmen busily laying new telephone and electric cables and, most cheering of all, the reopening of Kobe's schools. Middle East: Another...