With the click of a mouse on one computer, the screen of the
laptop a few feet away flashes wildly as a flood of data flies silently
across a private network cable connecting the two machines. Within a
minute the laptop's file sharing password is compromised.
"The
computer is having a bad day," says a reporter as he watches the effect
of the attack on his machine. "Packets are coming at it so fast, the
firewall doesn't know what to do."
Some hackers claim they can
teach a monkey how to hack in a couple of hours. We asked two hackers,
Syke and Optyx (at their request, we are using their hacking pseudonyms
rather than their real names), to give us non-simian reporters a
demonstration.
What we got was a sometimes-frightening view of how
easily nearly anyone's computer--at home or at work, protected or
not--can be cracked by a determined hacker. But we also found out that
computer users can make a hacker's job m
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