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Of course, if he really was a "1337 h4x0r" he'd have only bumped up a few of his grades, not given himself straight "A"s.

Yeah, he even could've taken it a step further and altered the system in a way that only his transcripts were altered - he still would have failed but he might have gotten away with having an altered transcript, especially since only a handful of people see them between the school and the student.

Another thing is that, well, even the gthmm notes that covering your tracks is important, and if you don't know how to do that then you shouldn't even be looking at the data on another computer because you're out in the open.

You can get a program from Steve Gibson that detects any spyware on your system.

This guy has all types of great security and privacy software.

as if i'm not paranoid enough!

as if i'm not paranoid enough!

as if i'm not paranoid enough!

So far as I can see, O'Neill's approach -- that of using nonterrestrial materials -- is the only way solar power satellites will ever prove economical -- with the possible exception of some proposals for urban illumination from earth-oribing mirrors. Sadly, I've seen very little in the way of studies of how to make non-terrestrial resource utilization work coming from mainstream corporate (or governmental) sources.

Since the early 1980s, when it became apparent that NASA's predictions for Shuttle economy were enormously optimistic, there has been a lot of thought put into how to create human-guided self-replicating raw-material processing facilities on the lunar surface and in space as a way of bootstrapping a huge industrial manufacturing infrastructure in those locations. This at the same time as technology has advanced in the relevant areas, thus bringing the cost of such a self-replicating "seed" facility, put in place in space or on the lunar surface, much closer to the level that might make private investors interested.

Ergo, what is needed is a "technology development initiative" by the government, but a release from taxation, those businesses that are pursuing relevant milestones toward the establishment of these capabilities.

Cracking a system without permision is wrong, just plain wrong, regardless what you do in there. Especially since there are many security firms that have systems which you are invited to crack, in order for them to learn the exploits and counter them. For one thing, there is much more phun in breaking into a tightly secured box owned by a security firm than an obscure mail server somewhere in a company. Add to that the fact that you have no risk of meeting your new fiance Spike in prison, and you have a pretty sweet deal. For the cherry on top, many companies will even pay rewards of yup to 3 grand for a successfull crack.

There is an incomplete list on this site

L0pht Heavy Industries
Cult of the dead cow
Happyhacker.org
Infiltration.org
hackers.com
Hacker news
attrition.org
AntiOnline
AntiCode
phrack
2600
Many of these pages contain arhives that have documents on cracking networks and such.
Vast documents on cracking NT servers.
A few of these are not really related but fun any how.
And the archives also contain many documents on system defence.
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Although it's a (relatively) biased view, you can check out attrition.org, specifically this for info on attrition's thoughts on JP & antionline. As far as the happy hacker series goes, check here. Over at attrition they really don't like JP & Carolyn Meinel, though, so take what you read with a grain of salt :)

-mike kania

Nope, you're wrong. Someone has already hosted many servers just for the intent to be hacked. Check out http://www.happyhacker.org/hwargame.html . Yep, a real life hack that box challenge that never goes away.