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	Hackers (short stories) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hackers (ISBN 0-441-00375-3) is an anthology of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois.
		The story is very typical of the cyberpunk genre in that its mood never rises from the melancholy and that the protagonist ends up suffering a kind of Pyrrhic victory, realizing too late that succeeding in his endeavor (winning the game) is actually worthless.
		The story is presented in the form of a letter from the main character, Stark, to a female cypherpunk whom he meets in the course of his work.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hackers_(short_stories) (1641 words)

	Hacker (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hacker, a person that is highly computer literate, especially in terms of programming.
		Hacker, in golf, can describe one whose golf game is unacceptably below the average par for a course, or mean a duffer, a mediocre player who enjoys playing but makes no serious effort to improve his skill.
		Hacker (and Hack) are also terms for a taxicab driver (from the shortened form of hackney carriage).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hackers (449 words)

	Hacker culture (Linux Reviews)
		The hacker culture is the voluntary subculture established between and around hackers.
		The main break between them is most often traced to the 1983 mass media coverage of hackers which failed to distinguish between the two aspects of the wider subculture.
		Hackers from the hobby and network hacking subculture often show an adherence to ficitional cyberpunk and cyberculture literature and movies.
	linuxreviews.org /dictionary/Hacker_culture (1633 words)

	Hacker Virus -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Currently, "''hacker''" is used in two main ways, one pejorative and one complimentary: in popular usage and in the media, it generally describes computer intruders or criminals; in the computing community, it describes a particularly brilliant programmer or technical expert (for example: "Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is a genius hacker.").
		It's just not how it really is. The hacker subculture that was in it's prime in the late 80s early 90s was filled with people that many of you may call crackers or criminal hackers, but many of them (definitely not all) where also experts at what they were doing.
		Hacker con is a term for a hacker convention.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/64/hacker-virus.html (1528 words)

	CNN.com - Technology - Russia's hackers: notorious or desperate? - November 20, 2000
		Russia's reputation as home to some of the world's most gifted and devious hackers was underscored last month when Microsoft Corp. disclosed that passwords used to access its coveted source code had been sent from the company network to an e-mail address in St. Petersburg.
		Hackers are motivated as much by a lack of opportunity in economically struggling Russia as by criminal leanings, people inside and outside the hacker community say.
		Last year, hackers got into the computers of Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly that also supplies much of Europe and took brief control of the central supply switchboard; officials wouldn't say whether there were service disruptions.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/11/20/russia.hackers.ap (1072 words)

	Amazon.com: The Veteran: Five-Heart Stopping Stories: Books: Frederick Forsyth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He is far less known as one of our premier short story writers (even though he won an Edgar for "There Are No Snakes in Ireland"), so it is a pleasure to have a new book from this superb storyteller.
		The story is followed through the police inspector assigned to the case, who must locate the two killers and find out who the old man was.
		Short stories by any author often feel contrived and forced, and these are no exception.
	www.amazon.com /Veteran-Five-Heart-Stopping-Stories/dp/0312286910 (2238 words)

	CNN.com - Technology - Microsoft says it knew of hacker all along - October 30, 2000
		SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- A hacker had high-level access to Microsoft Corp.'s computer system for 12 days -- not up to five weeks, as the company had first reported -- and was monitored the entire time.
		Microsoft used that time estimate because the duration of the hacker's presence was unclear and the company wanted to be sure it did not underestimate the problem, Miller said.
		Miller acknowledged the hacker could have been in the system for longer than 12 days, but he said the company is confident that high-level access occurred only between October 14 and October 25.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/10/30/microsoft.hackers.ap/index.html (751 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Hackers' Tales: Stories from the Electronic Front Line: Books: Dr K (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Each story is like a small biography on a hacker, giving their history and explaining what they have done.
		As there are lots of short stories, it jumps between different people, a little confusing at first.
		I was capivated by the colourful stories, from their '133+ Sp34k' to the social hyjinks.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Hackers-Tales-Stories-Electronic-Front/dp/1844428095 (703 words)

	Worms reveal that hackers evolving from mischief to crime
		Hackers would create the stealthy software bombs to flood corporate computer networks, shut down entire portions of the Internet or generally wreak havoc on the Web — just for notoriety, a good challenge and bragging rights among their peers.
		The worms may never have been discovered if hackers hadn't made some mistakes in their coding that caused computers to repeatedly shut down and restart, Allor said.
		By the next day, a Russian hacker or group of hackers known as "houseofdabus" released a blueprint on a well-known hacker site detailing how to exploit the vulnerability on the Windows 2000 operating system.
	www.oxfordpress.com /news/content/shared/news/nation/stories/08/21COMPUTER_WORM_.html (1024 words)

	Kuenselonline - Book highlights society's dynamism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A modern-day short story “February the Thirtieth and Other Stories” written by Suraj Pradhan, a former teacher and now a Bhutan Telecom employee, treats such diverse universal desires with colour and sincerity, and imagination.
		The story's take is that learning or understanding of knowledge could take on any forms, and much depended on a teacher's ability to grasp or comprehend such situations, and improve on it.
		All seven short stories of the book are set in Bhutan and sprinkled with local dialect flavors.
	www.kuenselonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6708 (285 words)

	Other Short Stories by Bob Liddil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		These stories were all written to be entered into an ongoing weekly short story contest on America Online in a section known as "Amazing Instant Stories." I add a new one every fifteen days or so according to how much time I have to devote to the contest.
		This story theme was "pockets" which made this story about fathers and sons and pool a natural.
		The story setting was "South Carolina, 1960" and this is an oral story, a true one that I have been trying for years to write down.
	www.digitropolis.net /otherstories/shortindex.htm (3224 words)

	Hackers fiercer than ever, FBI says - Network World
		As head of the ever-expanding FBI computer intrusion squad, Trent Teyema has heard all the stereotypes of who hackers are, but he knows that people who call themselves that today are a long way from their counterparts of even just a few years ago.
		A hacker used to be a 12-year-old in the basement eating candy and drinking cola, Teyema said.
		Teyema, who was speaking Wednesday at a conference of the Computer Security Institute in Washington, D.C., said hackers today are often armed, operating in other countries, and capable of malicious acts far beyond identity theft and fraud.
	www.networkworld.com /news/2005/10005-hackers-fbi.html?nl (732 words)

	The media’s portrayal of hacking, hackers, and hacktivism before and after September 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the time of national tragedy, grief, and worldwide sympathy, hackers and hacker groups suspended their activities, many offline and online demonstrations were canceled or postponed, and even alldas.org, the most popular defacement archive, stopped registering hacks.
		It stands in sharp contrast with the hackers’ own conception of their activity such as exploring and seeking computers, cracking code, communication data, and improving systems, all of which appear at the low end of the frequency scale.
		The discourse is shifting from hackers as criminals to hackers as cyberterrorists.
	www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue10_2/vegh/index.html (7310 words)

	PCQuest : Top Stories : Prevention is Better than Cure
		Would be hackers would attempt multiple logins trying to guess your password and setting accounts to lockout automatically after a particular number of invalid attempts is effective.
		It is unlikely that a hacker would walk up, put a gun to your head and take control of your system.
		All these honeypots also silently create logs of what the hacker is trying to and this can then be used to not only trace him out, but also further enhance your server security.
	www.pcquest.com /content/topstories/2005/105041201.asp (4995 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| Cory Doctorow \| I, Robot
		We're pleased to announce that this story, "I, Robot" by Cory Doctorow, has been nominated for the Hugo award.
		Natalie had always been short and a little hippy, with big curves and a dusting of freckles over her prominent, slightly hooked nose.
		Her short hair was about half grey, and it looked good on her.
	www.infinitematrix.net /stories/shorts/i-robot.html (13378 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A hacker's ethics are generally somewhat different from that of an average joe.
		It's been said that one out of every three hackers is a fed, and while this is an exaggeration, use this as a rule and you should do fine.
		In this process, the hacker tries the users first name, as that is the most common password of all, and a database of 20-100 common passwords.
	www.hackers-black-book.com /tutorials/Neophites-Guide-to-Hacking.txt (11846 words)

	CedarLUG - Review of "Stealing the Network: How to own the box"
		But because the short stories do reference real tools that could be used for malicious purposes, the book becomes controversial.
		Some of the stories do not seem to be of the same quality as the others, and, for lack of better terms, a sense of 'Hollywood hacker cheesiness' sometimes prevails.
		These short stories are only fictional and do not serve as a good basis for stereotyping people who serve as a risk to the integrity of computer systems and networks.
	www.cedarlug.org /article.php?story=20040505085346178 (962 words)

	Stories - Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The following stories were written by Jecel Assumpcao Jr purely for fun, so don't expect anything better than the typical internet "fan fiction".
		Also, the first chapter is short and fast paced to emulate the "teaser" start in each TV series episode.
		Having long been the domain of serious hackers (not in the popular press sense of the word) it isn't surprising that many of these parodies are highly technical, as is this one.
	www.lsi.usp.br /~jecel/stories (318 words)

	cbs5.com - Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize Winner, Dies At 94
		He continued to work, producing short stories, sometimes only a few paragraphs long, dictating each day to a friend who would also read him the newspapers.
		Across the span of 50 novels, five plays and scores of short stories and essays, Mahfouz depicted with startling realism the Egyptian "Everyman" balancing between tradition and the modern world.
		The scene of the novels often did not stretch beyond a few familiar blocks of Islamic Cairo, the 1,000-year-old quarter of the capital where Mahfouz was born.
	cbs5.com /topstories/topstories_story_242035245.html (526 words)

	oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Hackers & Painters
		In each essay, Graham moves beyond widely held beliefs about the way that programmers work as he tells important stories about the kinds of people behind tech innovations, revealing distinctions about their characters and their craft.
		Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it.
		His essay "Hackers and Painters" resonated with me because, coming from my music background, I had always felt that programming is like songwriting.
	www.oreilly.com /catalog/hackpaint (1376 words)

	WEP: No weapon against hackers - TechUpdate - ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In corporations and on campuses across the nation, workers have embraced the freedom given to them by wireless networking -- no longer are they shackled to their offices or dorm rooms by the need for network cabling.
		Researchers at U.C. Berkeley were able to break the encryption of WEP-encoded data in short order -- theoretically, the bad guys could do the same to you.
		Practically, it's unlikely that they'll bother; running a wireless sniffer is a bit more complicated than setting up a garden-variety password grabber, and it's a lot riskier, because the hacker has to be in close physical proximity to the network instead of sitting comfortably in his living room on the other side of the country.
	techupdate.zdnet.com /techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2689916,00.html (775 words)

	All Things Cyber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Before cyberpunk became a genre, it existed as 'The Movement', a literary community of young writers disappointed with the state of the mainstream science fiction.
		an anthology of short stories by the first wave of cyberpunk writers, in 1986 established the group as a whole.
		The term became widely used in media during the 80's and its meaning was extended to a whole range of technological sub-cultures, most importantly the hackers.
	www.wiu.edu /users/emp102/Cyberpunk/movement.html (262 words)

	cbs5.com - Google Snubs Reporters From CNET
		In her story, Mills included a link to Schmidt's home address, his net worth of $1.5 billion and noted that he has attended the Burning Man art festival and is an amateur pilot.
		The crux of Mills' story was about the vast amounts of information Google collects that is unavailable to the public.
		Mills wrote in her story that "hackers, zealous government investigators, or even a Google insider who falls short of the company's ethics standards could abuse that information."
	cbs5.com /topstories/local_story_221113122.html (303 words)

	Real Programmer Stories
		The moral of this story: while a Real Programmer usu- ally includes a keypunch and lineprinter in his toolkit, he can get along with just a front panel and a telephone in emergencies.
		In a cryptic statement, Professor Wirth of the ETH institute and father of the Pascal, Modula 2 and Oberon structured languages, merely stated that P. Barnum was correct.
		In a related late-breaking story, usually reliable sources are stating that a similar confession may be forthcoming from William Gates concerning the MS-DOS and Windows operating environments.
	gridley.res.carleton.edu /~straitm/real_programmer_stories.html (5958 words)

	Kevin Kelly -- True Films
		In this short film "hackers" is used in its original MIT meaning for someone who comes up with an ingenious or daring "hack" or invention, shortcut, or prank.
		Not coincidentally, some of the hackers here are legends in the digital era: Steve Wozniak, Ted Nelson, Andy Hertzfeld.
		I was involved in organizing the event in 1984 and appear briefly in the part about the first multiple player game.
	www.kk.org /truefilms/archives/2006/04/hackers_wizards.php (125 words)

	Media Stories - Black Box Voting
		The story was the same at St. Justin's Church on Mount Washington, where workers at 8 a.m.
		A malicious hacker could easily make the same switch, allowing votes to be changed, he said.
		Although time is short, Maryland should be able to get optical scanning machines operating by the fall.
	blackboxvoting.com /s9/index.php?/categories/4-Media-Stories (7224 words)

	Asian American Empowerment: ModelMinority.com - Hisaye Yamamoto: Still Writing Stories
		Her story "Yoneko's Earthquake" was chosen for inclusion in the collection Best American Short Stories of 1952; three other works -- "Seventeen Syllables" (1949), "The Brown House" (1951), and "Epithalamium" (1960) -- were also noted in the yearly lists of "Distinctive Short Stories" in the Best American Short Stories anthologies.
		Yamamoto's long career is filled with notable short stories, the most well-known of which were collected in 1988 in the much-acclaimed Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories.
		Her stories continue to be sought after for journals and collections, including Jessica Hagedorn's recent Charlie Chan is Dead.
	www.modelminority.com /article217.html (1005 words)

	UH - Top Stories - Student charged in UT hacking
		A student at the University of Texas was charged by federal prosecutors Friday with hacking into the school's computer system and downloading thousands of names and Social Security numbers.
		One apparent sign of his confidence: Sutton, a UT graduate, said he has not checked whether his Social Security number was downloaded.
		"I can't speculate as to why hackers hack in, other than some of them do it just for fun; some of them do it to really hurt people," Sutton said.
	www.uh.edu /admin/media/topstories/2003/aas/200303/20030317hack.html (880 words)

	John Seabrook \| Stories \| E-mail from Bill
		Besides a lot of luck, a high energy level and perhaps some IQ I think having an ability to deal with things at a very detailed level and a very broad level and synthesize between them is probably the thing that helps me the most.
		A hacker would write a cool piece of software for fun, copy it, and give it away to his friends.
		Upon returning to Seattle, he bought an operating system called qdos, which was short for Quick and Dirty Operating System, from another software developer, Seattle Computer, for around seventy-five thousand dollars, renamed it ms-dos, and, in a three-month code-writing marathon, converted it to I.B.M.'s specifications.
	www.booknoise.net /johnseabrook/stories/technology/email/index.html (9418 words)

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