Roundup: The summer of hacking
News Hackers are going to cost the world over £1tn in 2000, which is over 17 percent of the United States' GNP. They're also having two of their biggest gatherings this summer -- Def Con in Las Vegas and H2K in New York.
[July 13, 2000, 14:26]
Hackers flexing political muscles
News It was a sign of the times. Former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra, the punk icon who made an unsuccessful run for the Green Party's 2000 presidential nomination, was the keynote speaker at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference Saturday.
[July 17, 2000, 9:02]
Hackers making Napster 'irrelevant'
News Musicians and academics debated the right and wrong of sharing digital music on the Internet at the Hacking on Planet Earth 2000 (H2K) conference Saturday. While both the panelists and the crowd decried the music industry's hold on artists and...
[July 17, 2000, 8:32]
Mitnick teaches 'social engineering'
News Would you trust Kevin Mitnick? Dozens of administrators, security personnel and phone operators did. That, he says, was one reason he succeeded as a hacker. In the early 90s, Mitnick had the run of many phone systems.
[July 18, 2000, 11:14]
