Hackers

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If you care about your rights, don't buy an iPhone
By breaking the phones that customers dared to unlock from AT&T, Apple has come out against its own customers legal rights.
iPhone hackers release free AT&T unlock kit
No more contracts: Within three months of its release, the iPhone has been broken away from AT&T's network. Anyone can do it, for free.
U.S. military routinely hacks into Chinese networks
Why wasn't that the headline on a "scoop" detailing Chinese infiltration of Pentagon computers?
How an undercover NBC reporter was outed by hackers
A "Dateline" producer tried to cover the annual DEFCON convention with a hidden camera. Needless to say, she didn't get very far.
Meet the iPhone hackers
The coding geniuses who are taking apart Apple's hot device say they're within a few days of making it work with cell networks beyond AT&T.
iPhone hackers add ring tones, wallpaper
The worldwide crew of coders trying to unlock the iPhone report major progress. Freeing the Apple device from AT&T is only a matter of time.
Safe and insecure
I opened up my wireless home network to the world, and I've never felt more comfortable.
Hackers on Atkins
Geeks who go low-carb see it as more than just taking off pounds -- they're reengineering the human organism, overclocking their own bodies.
Warning. Warning. Warning. Fatal error. Stop.
Ethan Levin wasn't worried. Programming mistakes were inevitable. He'd fix it, and move on. An excerpt from Ellen Ullman's new novel, "The Bug."
"Matrix" nostalgia
Four years ago, geeks embraced the SF thriller because it promised them that reality could be hacked. Then came the tech-economy crash.
The copyright cops strike again
Two researchers at a computer security conference are served cease-and-desist orders moments before they're scheduled to speak.
Unleashing the dogs of cyber-war on Iraq!
Saddam Hussein could lose Internet access at the flip of a switch, and there's not much his geeks can do about it.
Play it again, scam
Crimes shown backward, heroes sent back to high school, and yet another trip to the '60s. This week's lame new TV shows prove a trip down Memory Lane can be a snooze.
"0wnz0red"
Programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick: A new short story from one of science fiction's bright young stars.
A new teenage wasteland?
Script kiddies, Web site defacers, chat-room gangsters: Today's digital troublemakers get a bad rap. But in "The Hacker Diaries" we learn that they're really all right.
Mozilla's revenge
As the much-touted, long-delayed open-source browser nears the version 1.0 finish line, it may give AOL a new weapon against Microsoft.
How do you fix a leaky Net?
Brian West says he was doing a public service when he pointed out a security hole in an Oklahoma newspaper's Web site. So why did the editor in chief call the cops?
Free Dmitry!
A Russian programmer charged with violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act languishes in jail. It's time to step up the pressure.
Blue screen of death
In Jeff Deaver's latest thriller, "The Blue Nowhere," a killer hacks his victims' computers, invades their lives and lures them to their deaths.
The phantom cyber-threat
We should stop worrying about computer terrorism and learn who our real enemies are.
Hacking the overmind
John Sundman's nanotech thriller is a tribute to geekly passions -- and a warning of imminent disaster.
Hunting the wild hacker
Work should be play, says a new book that sets forth the emerging ethical code of free-software programmers.
Crypto for the people
In Steven Levy's new book, paranoid freedom fighters armed with weapons of encryption face off against Big Brother.
There are spies among us. Yawn
A new book shines a light on the surprisingly unexciting world of corporate secret stealing.
Triumph of the free-software will
The passion of open-source hackers may make their success inevitable. Impugn it at your peril.
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