That show had alot of BS in it though also. I work for CBS Marketwatch, and the guy who got our global.asa file was exaggerating bigtime. We don't store any sensitive info in our global.asa file at all, yet he claimed that since he got it he could change stock prices and do all sorts of things to the stock market. There was no possible way for him to do anything with any of the info contained in that file. Even if it was chocked full of database passwords, he'd still have to be able to get to the database... Maybe that show should verify some of its claims before it aired. Jay -----Original Message----- From: nate at techie.com [mailto:nate at techie.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 8:08 PM To: TCLUG Subject: Re: [TCLUG] [OT] PBS Frontline addresses "hacking" On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:24:06PM -0600, Timothy Wilson wrote: > "Hackers" Interviews with teens, security experts, and law enforcement > officials reveals the insecurities of the Internet. > > Airs tonight at 9:00 on channel 2 and on Wed. at 10:00 on channel 17. I just finished watching it. I flipped over it after Dark Angel and decided to stay on the channel. I thought it was really well done. The piece showed hackers not as criminals but as... well... hackers. I guess I've been working with computers too long because "hacker" is one of those words that just is. Frontline explained how easy it is to get scripts and who script kiddies are. They also showed off DefCon and some of the heavy thinking that goes on there. The program came off saying (to me), "You don't have to like these kids, but you have to admit that they're right." Anyway, I would recommend watching the program if you missed it. Nate _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list