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  • eTerrorism: Weighing security against liberties

    Part 2: No prosecutions under new security laws have been reported, but critics say aggressive investigations and public overreaction have had a chilling effect on personal freedoms.

  • Hilton hacker sentenced to juvenile hall

    A Massachusetts teen who admitted to accessing T-Mobile USA's internal systems and posting data from Paris Hilton's cell phone on the Web will serve 11 months in a juvenile facility.

  • Shades of Grey - hacking on the edge of the law

    Why is it that "Gray hat" hackers, neither corporate pros nor havoc wreakers, are increasingly falling on the wrong side of the law?

  • Guilty plea in Al-Jazeera site hack

    A central California man plead guilty Thursday to two charges stemming from an attack on the Web site of the Arab news service Al-Jazeera during the early days of the Iraq conflict.

  • Relief, anger greet Mitnick plea

    When imprisoned hacker Kevin Mitnick pleaded guilty to seven felonies last Friday -- assenting to a plea agreement that may see him released by the end of the year -- the news quickly spread to observers with very different interpretations of its significance.

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  • Hackers: Under the hood

    Mudge, Kevin Mitnick, Adrian Lamo, Jericho and Raven Alder speak to ZDNet Australia about the making of a hacker.

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