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MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker in 1980s (TechCrunch)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:30:49 GMT

... California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it. He was never arrested because he was a minor, but the FBI confiscated all of his computer equipment and some newspaper accounts of the incident stated incorrectly (see image below) that he...

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Michael Standaert: Hacker offers fresh view of China's university system (The Huffington Post)

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:10:27 GMT

... , but can only be fixed in a freer, more democratic climate. In the first major paragraph, the hacker basically has Tsinghua president Gu Binglin say that after the Communists took power universities in China went down the drain. Principal Gu Binglin indicated that the 1900s-1940s could be considered the golden age for Chinese education circles. During this short period of time, China's...

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Marsh Creek Group's Web Site Working After Hacker Strikes (Red Orbit )

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:00:47 GMT

By Hilary Costa Convincing 700 people to voluntarily slog through an East County waterway to collect old tires, soda bottles and other environmentally damaging debris is no easy task -- and the Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed fear they might have a tougher time than usual this year after some computer problems took down their Web site this month.

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Al-Azhar Fatwa: Hacking U.S., Israeli Websites Is Permissible as Part of Electronic Jihad (Memri Latest Blogs)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:20:00 GMT

According to a report on Islamonline.net, the Al-Azhar Fatwa Committee has issued a fatwa permitting the hacking of American and Israeli websites that harm Islam and Muslims, and also permitting damaging them, as part of "electronic jihad." TO ... August 29, 2008, 12:08 pm

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Hacking a scale to test rocket motors (Hack A Day)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:30:00 GMT

Filed under: misc hacks , daily [David Steeman] sent us this project. He uses a consumer scale to measure rocket engine thrust . He wanted to be able to map the thrust curve of his homemade rocket motors to determine whether they are meeting the design goals. It does this by measuring the force applied by the rocket engine via a microcontroller that records it in a text file on a computer....

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Pentagon hacker latest to use the Asperger's defense [Crime] (Valleywag)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Gary McKinnon, the U.K. citizen trying to avoid extradition to the U.S. to stand trial on multiple counts of criminal trespass for using a 56k modem to hack into the Pentagon's network in search of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Muslim Hackers Attack Dutch Host (Religion News Blog)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:49:23 GMT

Independent, cybercrime observer Zone-H.org has reported that Islamic hacker communities are involved in the latest online "hacktivism" addressing perceived Dutch Islamophobia, particularly member of parliament Geert Wilders' controversial film released earlier this year.

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UK Hacker Loses Extradition Appeal Yet Again (Techdirt)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:01:00 GMT

While the US gov't clearly overplayed its claims that Gary McKinnon was the "world's biggest hacker" after having him arrested for breaking into US military computers, that doesn't mean that McKinnon hasn't overreacted back in response. The US offered him a plea bargain deal that seemed fairly reasonable, given what he did -- and he flipped out about it. Now he's lost his latest appeal against...

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Defending Islam, hacker defaces thousands of Dutch websites (Prophecy Fellowship Forums)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:13:00 GMT

http://www.itworld.com/security/54552/defending-islam-hacker-defaces-thousands-dutch-websites ---Quote--- August 28, 2008, 09:54 AM WebWereld Netherlands A 'hacktivist' has hijacked numerous Dutch sites in retaliation for the anti-Islamic short film "Fitna" which was made and released...

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Nasa hacker loses final legal challenge (Game press every day)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:43:00 GMT

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New Hacker Threat Uncovered in UK - Posted 4:56PM 8/29/09 by Nicholas Lee (Soc 202 - Current Events)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:00:00 GMT

According to BBC World News, a new hi-tech hacker threat is targeting self-checkout systems used by supermarkets in the United Kingdom. By using information gathered from a hacked banking line, credit card and debit card information will be used on fake cards to make withdraws and purchase high-priced items. These cards are linked to American financial institutions, posing not only a risk to...

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Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised (Soc 202 - Current Events)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:37:00 GMT

On August 27, 2008, a group of hackers were arrested. Six people, who were operating in Taiwan and China, are considered by Taiwan's Criminal Investigaiton Burea to be the responsible for the biggest theft of personal data Taiwan has ever seen with 50 million personal records stolen. Among the list of people whose personal information was stolen are former Taiwan president, Ma Ying-jeou and...

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Hacking Dish Network (Satellite Offers and Reviews)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:00:00 GMT

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Hacker Hilariously Hacks Hack (Stereohyped)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:29:16 GMT

Human itching powder Soulja Boy's Internet accounts were all hacked last week. Nightmare! Can you even imagine? I mean, his YouTube access was locked for literally hours. Did the hack make the crappy rapper wary of all the technology of which he's so fond? Of course not; that would be too rational. As soon as his [...]

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Hacker hunts for facts about gymnasts' ages (International Herald Tribune)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:08:53 GMT

Walker promptly started a blog, and his first post was titled "Hack the Olympics!" It included copies of his find and details of how he uncovered the information. The attention his post garnered - it received a total of 1,500 comments on his blog and on the technology news site Slashdot - helped revive the debate over whether He, who won an individual gold medal on the uneven bars, and other...

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County Transit Worker Jailed For Hacking Computers (CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for )

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:33:39 GMT

A Miami-Dade transit employee has been jailed, accused of hacking into the county's computer systems, in order to snoop on co-workers without their knowledge.

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UK hacker faces extradidition (SiliconRepublic.com)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:55:00 GMT

Authorities in the US and the UK are continuing to show the world how seriously they take computer hacking.

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Scottish News: Hacker Faces Us Justice (The Daily Record)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

SCOTS cyber-geek Gary McKinnon faces 70 years in a US jail after losing a last-ditch fight against deportation.

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Intridea to Deliver Renegade's Guide to Hacking Rails at RailsConf Europe 2008 (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:32:56 GMT

WASHINGTON - Intridea, Inc., the agile enterprise Web 2.0 company, will lead two sessions at RailsConf Europe 2008: a Rails development tutorial, “The Renegade's Guide to Hacking Rails Internals,” and a general session,

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UFO Hacker Latest (UFOMystic)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:14:31 GMT

Well, it was perhaps inevitable: British “UFO Computer Hacker” Gary Mckinnon may be in the final stages of his time as a free man. , he has had his last chance at an appeal turned down and faces trial in the United States - and possibly a lengthy prison sentence, too. I have said it before and I will say it again that Mckinnon was foolish to think he could hack the computers of official...

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