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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.; By Farhad Manjoo Sep 28, 2007
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.; By Farhad Manjoo Sep 12, 2007
U.S. military routinely hacks into Chinese networks: Why wasn't that the headline on a "scoop" detailing Chinese infiltration of Pentagon computers?; Andrew Leonard Sep 4, 2007
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.; By Farhad Manjoo Aug 6, 2007
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.; By Farhad Manjoo Jul 11, 2007
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.; By Farhad Manjoo Jul 10, 2007
Safe and insecure: I opened up my wireless home network to the world, and I've never felt more comfortable.; By Micah Joel May 18, 2004
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.; By Katharine Mieszkowski Oct 30, 2003
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."; By Ellen Ullman May 16, 2003
"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.; By Jennifer Buckendorff May 6, 2003
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.; By Farhad Manjoo Apr 15, 2003
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.; By Brian McWilliams Mar 6, 2003
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.; By Carina Chocano Sep 23, 2002
"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.; By Cory Doctorow Aug 28, 2002
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.; By Andrew Leonard Jun 5, 2002
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.; By Andrew Leonard Mar 12, 2002
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?; By Damien Cave Aug 29, 2001
Free Dmitry!: A Russian programmer charged with violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act languishes in jail. It's time to step up the pressure.; By Damien Cave and Katharine Mieszkowski Aug 3, 2001
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.; Read by Dennis Boutsikaris May 14, 2001
The phantom cyber-threat: We should stop worrying about computer terrorism and learn who our real enemies are.; By Caroline Benner Apr 4, 2001
Hacking the overmind: John Sundman's nanotech thriller is a tribute to geekly passions -- and a warning of imminent disaster.; By Andrew Leonard Feb 21, 2001
Hunting the wild hacker: Work should be play, says a new book that sets forth the emerging ethical code of free-software programmers.; By Andrew Leonard Feb 5, 2001
Crypto for the people: In Steven Levy's new book, paranoid freedom fighters armed with weapons of encryption face off against Big Brother.; By Andrew Leonard Jan 24, 2001
There are spies among us. Yawn: A new book shines a light on the surprisingly unexciting world of corporate secret stealing.; By Janelle Brown Dec 14, 2000
Triumph of the free-software will: The passion of open-source hackers may make their success inevitable. Impugn it at your peril.; By Andrew Leonard Oct 31, 2000

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