Word: viruses
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...medium may be new, but human nature hasn't changed: whatever firewalls and antidotes the virus hunters come up with, virus writers will always find a way around them. As veteran hacker Emmanuel Goldstein put it, "If your system can be knocked out, assume it will be." You journalists need to read a little more carefully. He said if it "can" be knocked out. It is feasible to engineer systems that are exceedingly difficult to knock out without incurring significant costs. The Love Bug exploits a system that was designed to encourage promiscuous behavior. Windows is a code-running slut...
...Guzman never got academic credit for "E-mail Password Sender Trojan." But the proposal's mangled syntax--de Guzman described a program that "catched and retrieved all lose passwords that users can enjoy"--was a dead giveaway. The proposal appears to have been a blueprint for the Love Bug virus that wreaked havoc on e-mail systems around the world, from the Pentagon to the British Parliament, and caused as much as $15 billion in damage. The skinny 23-year-old de Guzman came out of hiding last week for a press conference at which he came close to admitting...
...unlikely as de Guzman may seem as a mastermind of the most virulent computer virus in history, it's no great surprise to law-enforcement officials that it appears to have been hatched on a campus in the developing world. They say small cells of hackers--some at colleges, others in contact only electronically--pose an unprecedented threat to the computer systems of the industrialized world. For some, computer mischief is an educational exercise, a way to hone their computer skills. Others do it for sport or profit or the fun of committing large-scale vandalism. And for a growing...
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...much of his Hong Kong work, such as The Killer and Bullet in the Head, is regarded as classic cinema. The sequel brings back Cruise's superagent Ethan Hunt, who romances a sexy female agent (Thandie Newton of Beloved) while chasing a group of terrorists armed with a lethal virus. A flashy premise and Cruise's mega-watt appeal helped the original gross $180 million. The addition of Woo, in his first film since Face/Off, should push the sequel into the stratosphere. If the jaw-dropping trailer is any indicator, M:I2 could easily be the highlight of the summer...