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  • US Congress Proposed Law to let Hollywood Hack Your Computer

    07/26/2002 9:32:49 PM PDT · by Mister Magoo · 5 replies · 259+ views
    BBC ^ | Friday, 26 July, 2002
    Friday, 26 July, 2002, 12:42 GMT 13:42 UK Hollywood tries hacking tactics The Harry Potter film was pirated in China last year Hollywood is hoping a law will be passed that would allow it to use hacking techniques to prevent the illegal download of music and movies from the internet. A bill introduced in the US seeks to allow the industry to hack into personal computers to search for illegal material. It could also allow technology to be used to disrupt or disable computers known to be trading in copyrighted films or music. The biggest change would be the lifting...
  • Privacy, Yale vs. Princeton

    07/26/2002 3:56:02 AM PDT · by Agent Smith · 11 replies · 96+ views
    Associated Press | 7/25/02 | Diane Scarponi
    Yale Accuses Princeton of Hacking Thu Jul 25,11:30 PM ET By DIANE SCARPONI, Associated Press Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale University complained to the FBI ( news - web sites) on Thursday that admissions officials at Princeton improperly entered a Yale Web site that was set up for prospective students. Yale said it found 18 unauthorized log-ins to the Web site that were traced back to computers at Princeton, including computers in the admissions office. "We're assessing the information to see if there is a federal violation," FBI spokeswoman Lisa Bull said. The head of admissions at Princeton...
  • Piracy fight gets serious (Dem bill to legalize corporate viruses/DOS/hacking)

    07/01/2002 12:30:51 PM PDT · by weegee · 15 replies · 212+ views
    BBC News ^ | Thursday, 27 June, 2002, 16:17 GMT 17:17 UK | No byline
    Record makers could win the right to carry out hack attacks on music sharing services if a US proposal becomes law. Californian congressman Howard Berman has drawn up a bill that would legalise the disruption of peer-to-peer networks by companies who are trying to stop people pirating copyrighted materials. If his idea becomes law, record companies will be able to carry out a variety of attacks on the sharing services to make them unusable or so irritating to use that people abandon them. Existing legislation makes it an offence for anyone to carry out many of the attacks mooted in...
  • Aussie hacker jailed for sewage attacks

    06/27/2002 7:47:19 PM PDT · by Kermit · 7 replies · 226+ views
    iAfrica.com cooltech ^ | 01 Nov 2001 | Luke Tagg
    HACKINGAussie hacker jailed for sewage attacksby Luke TaggPosted Thu, 01 Nov 2001A 49-year old Brisbane man has been sentenced to two years in prison for hacking into a local council's computerised waste management system, causing an environmental disaster which saw millions of litres of raw sewage spill into rivers, parks and the grounds of a Hyatt Regency hotel. Vitek Boden was found guilty on 30 charges involving computer hacking, theft and causing significant environmental damage after his exploits in March and April last year, in what is being described as the world's first environmental vandalism case. The Maroochydore District Court...
  • Boy of 17 hacks into missile secrets

    06/14/2002 8:50:01 AM PDT · by Rebelbase · 30 replies · 185+ views
    Assoicated Newspapers Limited ^ | 6/14/02 | Standard Foreign News Desk
    The Pentagon has had its second major intelligence embarrassment in a week after a teenager in Austria hacked into secret plans, including the location of US nuclear missiles. The exploits of Markus Hirsch, 17, come only days after British surveillance enthusiast John Locker was able to hack into US spy satellite pictures. Now an FBI team is on its way to Vienna to question Markus. Their big fear is that Osama bin Laden followers may have enjoyed similar access for months. American protection of its secrets has never been higher since 11 September, with even the most conservative estimates saying...
  • Dr. Damn cleans house for file-swappers

    04/26/2002 4:13:18 AM PDT · by zandtar · 6 replies · 502+ views
    ZDNet News ^ | April 25, 2002, 4:30 AM PT | John Borland
    Dr. Damn cleans house for file-swappers By John Borland Special to ZDNet News April 25, 2002, 4:30 AM PT The record companies had their Napster, and the stream of file-swapping companies that followed. The file-swapping companies now have their "Dr. Damn." For the past several weeks, the pseudonymous programmer, who says he's a male college student and declines to give his real name, has been releasing versions of popular file-swapping programs online with the advertising and user-tracking features stripped out. He's done Grokster and iMesh. And he's not alone. His work, now available through the Grokster and iMesh networks themselves,...
  • Indian hacker turns cyber cop

    04/17/2002 1:22:43 PM PDT · by boris · 3 replies · 305+ views
    BBC Hindi service | Brajesh Upadhyay
    Indian hacker turns cyber cop Net security is an increasing concern in India By Brajesh Upadhyay of the BBC Hindi service The clock had just struck midnight when users logged onto a popular chat site noticed a rather short message flashing up on their monitors: "DOS attack". To the majority, it may not have meant much, but to 16-year-old Ankit Fadia sitting in front of his PC in the Indian capital Delhi it was a "Denial of Service" attack - someone somewhere was trying to hack into a website. Within seconds, he had managed to track the location of the...
  • Yahoo Hacked!!!

    04/01/2002 4:39:47 AM PST · by BureaucratusMaximus · 6 replies · 47+ views
    Yahoo's home page looked like the following as of 7:41 CST:     Founded by Jim Furtado and Sean Forman, the Baseball Think Factory ties together a wide range of baseball interests and information under a single company. Please visit our sites. Feel free to tell us what you think about them.Baseball-Reference.com Find statistics from 1871 to the present for major league players, teams, and leagues. Complete post-season and managerial data is included as well along with other interesting features including The Baseball Travel Guide where you can find all the baseball close to you from Akron to Yuma. BaseballPrimer.com...
  • Halle Hacked!

    03/27/2002 5:21:58 AM PST · by Stop Legal Plunder · 8 replies · 291+ views
    Is it Nicole's Revenge... or a teenage prank? Check out www.hallewood.com and compare with www.hallewood.com/hallewood_intro.html.