Hacker

WASHINGTON -- He called himself "griton," Spanish for screamer, and allegedly used stolen Harvard University passwords to sneak into U.S. military computers from his home -- in Buenos Aires, Argentina.He hacked his way into NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, poked around the Los Alamos National Laboratory and even tried, but failed, to invade the Army Research Laboratory's computer system.Yesterday, federal officials announced an arrest warrant for Argentine Julio Cesar Ardita, 22, who was described as part cybersnoop, part cyberspook, and was unmasked in an international crime hunt carried out with the first-ever computer wiretap order.

It was 2003, it was Vegas, and Johnny Long was a rock star. He slung the blue speaker badge around his neck - careful to make sure everyone could see it - and strutted through the DEF CON hacker convention with his nose in the air and his ears set to whisper mode, listening for the buzz. Too cool to make eye contact, the 32-year-old cut a path through the crowd, which was mostly made up of men wearing some variation of a black T-shirt, the unofficial uniform for the three-day conference.

On May 21, 2004, DOLORES E. (nee Bergman); beloved wife of the late Peter E. Kairos; loving mother of Christine Hacker, Jennifer Viola and the late Carolyn Kairos, George and Wayne Kairos; mother-in-law of Joseph Hacker, Jr.; beloved daughter of the late Esther Smith; grandmother of Steven and Sherry Hacker, Melissa Cruz, Nicky Kairos, Olivia Truland and Alisa Kissinger; sister of the late Carolyn Andrew; aunt of Nicholas and Dimetri Andrew. Services at Kaczorowski Funeral Home, P.A., 1201 Dundalk Avenue, on Tuesday at 9 A.M. Interment Glen Haven Memorial Park.

The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream By Jacob S. Hacker Jacob Hacker argues persuasively in The Great Risk Shift that America's middle class finds itself living with far more risk and income volatility than it did a generation ago. "Problems once confined to the working poor - lack of health insurance and access to guaranteed pensions, job insecurity and staggering personal debt, bankruptcy and home...

After six months of painstaking shift work, Charles O. Hacker has completed his scale model of the topsail schooner Dapper Tom, a Baltimore-built privateering ship used during the War of 1812 to help break the British blockade.At 73, it is not as easy as it once was to knot the tiny threads and paint the fine lines that make Hacker's reduced reproductions true. He must perform his most tedious work with the aid of a magnifying glass. But cataracts and a failing back have not prevented Hacker, a man with an engineering mind and dexterous fingers, from completing his labor of love.

Not everyone can be president. Selling magazines is also a very rewarding experience. The hacker fiends messing up the big Web sites probably missed out on last year's NASDAQ market. Hijacking airliners is wrong. No matter who owns them. Cheer up. Spring training starts next week. They better keep John Rocker in baseball, or he would only get a job in talk radio.

In Thursday's editions of The Sun, an article on this week's computer hacker attacks reported that Datek was one of the Web sites affected. Datek officials initially said their site had suffered service disruptions that might have been caused by the hackers. They later said the problems resulted not from the attacks, but from a malfunction at one of Datek's Internet service providers.

Don't mess with Irony if you know what's best for you.She'll have your incoming phone calls routed into a 900-number phone-sex service, your credit report in ruins and your picture -- superimposed in some sort of heinous act -- circulating on the Internet, all in no time at all."I was talking to this hacker guy," Irony says. "I said, 'Do you think I'm some kind of hacker groupie?' He said, 'No, but I don't think you're cool, either.' "So she did what any self-respecting hacker would do. She broke into his computer (via modem)

Keno - not the Mega Millions $100 million jackpot - generated all of the excitement yesterday afternoon at the 8 Days A Week Convenience Mart in Parkville, where Bonnie Hacker walked away a $20,000 winner. And it couldn't have happened at a better time. "I just lost my job," said Hacker, a Parkville resident. "It seems I've had a streak of bad luck for seven years." Holding tight to the winning ticket, Hacker left after verifying with a store clerk that she had the correct numbers for the payout.