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Maya S. Turre '00, of Dunster House, complains that "at least half the time half the computers aren't working in either of the two labs...
...week later, a Rhode Island man pleaded guilty to hacking into a Dunster House computer in October of 1996. Although the incident was not initially reported to FAS Computer Services, Osterberg says students have nothing to be worried about. "[I am] under the impression that the compromised system was sanitized and does not represent a threat currently," he says. "Any accounts on FAS central systems that may have been compromised as a result of that incident have long since been secured, due to the periodic enforced password changes that now take place...
However, the vast majority of hackers are out there for the taking of private information, as in the cases of the Dunster and Eliot House system break-ins. Some follow a profoundly anti-bureaucratic ethic that was defined by Steven Levy in his 1984 book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. His tenets are as follows: Access to computers should be unlimited and total, all information should be free, authority should be mistrusted and decentralization should be promoted...
...Harvard students selected are Jonathan J. Finer '99 of Winthrop House, Akash K. Kapur '98 formerly affiliated with Dunster House and Navin Narayan '99 of Adams House. The Rhodes scholarship was established in 1904 by the estate of Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes envisioned bringing students from nine beneficiary countries to Oxford, his alma mater, to promote international understanding and peace...
Although the tutor followed the alleged intruder up Dunster Street to Mt. Auburn Street, a few minutes later he returned and the University police responded to the scene...