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A blogger uses Google and a Chinese search engine to find government documents showing the uneven-bars champ's birth date as Jan. 1, 1994.
By King Kaufman
August 21, 2008
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Many experts think that the Russian government may not be directly involved.
By Evan Ratliff
August 14, 2008
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Government sites under attack from Russian hackers move to U.S.-based servers, including Atlanta's Tulip Systems.
By Evan Ratliff
August 12, 2008
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Security expert Doug Camplejohn on building a smarter firewall to outsmart cyber slimeballs.
By Joe Hutsko
July 28, 2008
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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
September 28, 2007
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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
September 12, 2007
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Why wasn't that the headline on a "scoop" detailing Chinese infiltration of Pentagon computers?
By Andrew Leonard
September 4, 2007
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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
August 6, 2007
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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
July 11, 2007
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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
July 10, 2007
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I opened up my wireless home network to the world, and I've never felt more comfortable.
By Micah Joel
May 18, 2004
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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
October 30, 2003
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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
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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
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Two researchers at a computer security conference are served cease-and-desist orders moments before they're scheduled to speak.
By Farhad Manjoo
April 15, 2003
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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
March 6, 2003
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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
September 23, 2002
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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
August 28, 2002
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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
June 5, 2002
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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
March 12, 2002
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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
August 29, 2001
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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
August 3, 2001
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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
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We should stop worrying about computer terrorism and learn who our real enemies are.
By Caroline Benner
April 4, 2001
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John Sundman's nanotech thriller is a tribute to geekly passions -- and a warning of imminent disaster.
By Andrew Leonard
February 21, 2001