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Who cracked Microsoft?: Many free-software hackers make no attempt to hide their hatred of Bill Gates -- could they be the culprits?; By Andrew Leonard Oct 27, 2000
Cracked or not? The SDMI saga continues.: Did hackers successfully break watermarks designed to protect digital music?; By Janelle Brown Oct 19, 2000
SDMI cracked!: Hackers break the recording industry's vaunted music protection system.; By Janelle Brown Oct 12, 2000
Is the SDMI boycott backfiring?: Programmers don't want to help the recording industry test its new security "solution." But the technology insiders behind the system say hackers could kill it once and for all by participating.; By Janelle Brown Oct 3, 2000
Crack SDMI? No thanks!: Hackers turn up their noses at a "challenge" proposed by the recording and electronics industries.; By Janelle Brown Sep 14, 2000
Ain't no network strong enough: Master cryptographer Bruce Schneier's "Secrets and Lies" explains why computer security is an oxymoron.; By Brendan I. Koerner Aug 31, 2000
To heck with hactivism: Do politically motivated hackers really think they're promoting global change by defacing Web sites?; By Brendan I. Koerner Jul 20, 2000
Paulina Borsook to Eric Raymond: Don't you Kakutani me!: The author of "Cyberselfish" takes issue with Raymond's screed defending libertarian geek culture.; By Paulina Borsook Jun 30, 2000
Don't tweak the geeks!: A hacker historian parries a wrongheaded New York Times assault on digital culture.; By Eric Raymond Jun 28, 2000
Cybersleuth: Posing as a thief or informing the FBI about hacker behavior -- it's all in a day's work for AntiOnline founder John Vranesevich.; By Mark Compton Mar 27, 2000
The passionate Ms. Paltrow: Gwyneth wants Juliette Binoche in the worst way; Pogue punkster says he'll sue Siniad for dropping the dime on his jones; Munchkin huffers, get the hook. Plus: No! No! Say it ain't so! Kiss about to kiss off forevah!; By Amy Reiter Feb 16, 2000
The Net scare: The Web will survive this week's spate of site attacks. Can it get past the hysteria?; By Scott Rosenberg Feb 10, 2000
The Web whodunit: No one knows who's behind the wave of attacks on big sites -- but everyone's got a theory.; By Salon Technology Staff Feb 10, 2000
Criminal code?: A judge's decision to ban a DVD-playing Linux program and all discussion about it outrages the free-software community.; By C. Scott Ananian Feb 9, 2000
You've got accounts!: Pranksters exploit a big back door in AOL's Instant Messenger service.; By David Cassel Jan 25, 2000
Letters to the editor: More sympathy for parents with disabled children Plus: What about pro wrestling's contribution to television?; Why did Susan Brownmiller vote for a "rapist" -- twice?; Letters to the editor Jan 7, 2000
Naked eye: A prudish hacker caught me surfing porn and turned the image on my monitor, and my world, upside down.; By Daniel Sieberg Dec 22, 1999
Blue Glow: Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1999; By Joyce Millman Oct 13, 1999
Letters to the Editor: Why the GOP likes big, bad Pat Buchanan; the sex industry needs Susie Bright's enlightenment; e-mail is no place for a secret!; Letters to the Editor Sep 13, 1999
Hacker's remorse: When a Hotmail security breach exposed e-mail inboxes, I spied on a rival and learned more than I wanted to know.; By "Lily Black" Sep 2, 1999
Godhatesfags.com feels the love: The infamous anti-homosexual Web site is redirected to godlovesfags.com, and its new owner isn't returning the domain name any time soon.; By Dave Cullen Aug 20, 1999
Hacking toward Bethlehem: Abe Ingersoll, a former punk hacker and infamous "Road Rules" cast member, reflects on his ill-fated 15 minutes.; By Jonathan Vankin Jul 21, 1999
Letters to the Editor: Punk pioneer Mike Watt declines his glass coffin; ease up on Jar Jar already!; Letters to the Editor Jun 16, 1999
Should hackers spend years in prison?: Stiff penalties for computer trespassing could create a broad new class of criminal -- including you and me.; By Peter Wayner Jun 9, 1999
Kevin Mitnick supporters plan rallies: Fellow hackers organize Friday protests of his imprisonment, in hopes of winning him a room at a halfway house.; By Kaitlin Quistgaard Jun 4, 1999

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