Hackers attack key Net traffic computers

NF Reporter · 02-06-2007, 09:17 PM

AP - Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.

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waltky · 08-08-2007, 10:02 AM

Is There No Way to Escape Hackers?

Experts: Nothing Is 100 Percent Secure
Aug. 7, 2007 - With the Right Resources, Any Entity Can Monitor What You Do Online

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You can install all the computer virus protection software you want, but if someone is determined to find out who you're e-mailing, technically they can, security experts say. And that may be particularly true if that someone -- or something -- is the federal government.

"There's a lot you can do to make it hard," said Charles Miller, the principal security analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, a Maryland-based firm that successfully took over the iPhone a few weeks ago, prompting Apple to release a security patch last week. "If they have the resources of the federal government, they're going to be able to see [what you do] no matter what you do."

On Monday, President Bush signed into law an expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which gives the government expanded rights to intercept phone calls and e-mails without warrants as long as the information being intercepted relates to foreign terror intelligence. Democrats and some civil liberties groups have said that the law goes too far.

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