In the March 15th, 2002 issue of Newsweek there is an article on how a young man named Adrian Lamo hacked into the New York Times database. “Adrian Lamo is a 21-year-old high school dropout with no job and no permanent address. So how did he get to be listed alongside such luminaries as Bill Gates and Robert Redford in The New York Times' Op-Ed database? By hacking into the newspaper's supposedly secure corporate i

I am not sure who developed the notion to do this and the ability to do this, but ‘encrypting’ a program or text on your computer is something that most computers with an up-to-date version of Windows can do. Encryption on computers just takes the information when viewed as text or as a program, and it changes a few things that are used to access that particular information. For example, the path to which the program is located in your computer, the password in which to access it, and other aspects of the programs properties. When transferring information from one person to another on the computer with fear of hackers intercepting the transmission, this technique of security is excellent.

As said before, nowhere is totally secure. Well, this holds true also for Cal-ISO. “Look past the planes. (Can you?) How about the power grid? Last spring someone broke into the computer systems of the California Independent System Operator (Cal-ISO), the state manager of long-distance electricity transmission. According to Cal-ISO, the target was a test system unconnected to the grid. There was no damage. Still, the electronic intrusion, looked at in the light of the Sept. 11 attacks, unnerves the organization. The word that comes to mind: vulnerability.” (Sherman, Newsweek 2) Cal-ISO is one of the largest utility companies in the country. If a hacker can get into the company’s database and destroy part of their operations, then what would have happened if the hacker would have gotten into the actual database of operations and shutdown the entire plant. There would have been a power crisis all over the country.

ntranet-and then listing himself as an expert in "computer hacking, national security and communications intelligence.” (Fragala, Newsweek 1) To know that there are people out there that are able to accomplish these unimaginable feats of computer and electronic genius boggles my mind. The New York Times is a very distinguished and respectable newspaper. When there is a corporation of that magnitude, you expect that they have the best computer scientists on their staff developing web pages and databases that are more secure than Fort Knox. Well, there is a saying somewhere by someone that I cannot remember right now that goes, “Nothing in this world is completely secure.” That theory in my mind and most minds of people today is sound.

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