

This is the very first episode of the Net Cafe series. It was shot on location at a cybercafe in San Francisco called CoffeeNet. It looks at the hacker culture and their influence on the early growth of the internet. Guests include Dan Farmer, author of SATAN and COPS; Elias Levi (aka Aleph 1), webmaster of underground.org and Bugtraq; also "Reid Fleming" and "White Knight" from Cult of the Dead Cow. Originally broadcast in 1996.
| Hackers tap White House, campaign systems (UPI) WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The White House computer network has been penetrated several times by Chinese hackers who viewed e-mails between officials, a senior U.S. official says. |
| Hackers cracked McCain and Obama networks (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Foreign hackers infiltrated the networks of John McCain and Barack Obama during the US presidential campaign, according to reports. |
| News roundup: Hackers breach W.H. computers; new evidence Russia was provoked in Georgia (USA Today) Good morning. It's finally Friday. Financial Times quotes an unidentified "senior U.S. official" saying that Chinese hackers have broken into the White House computer network. "The cyber attackers managed to penetrate the White House system for brief periods that allowed them to steal information before U.S. government experts each time patched the system," the paper says. The paper's anonymous ... |
| Hackers tap White House, campaign systems (Moldova.org) The White House computer network has been penetrated several times by Chinese hackers who viewed e-mails between officials, a senior U.S. official says.The cyberattackers penetrated the White House system for brief periods that allowed theft of information before U.S. government experts patched the system, the Financial Times was told.Meanwhile, Newsweek reported the computer systems of Barack ... |
| Chinese hackers viewed White House e-mail (Moldova.org) The White House computer network has been penetrated several times by Chinese hackers who viewed e-mails between officials, a senior U.S. official says.The cyber attackers got into the White House system for brief periods that allowed theft of information before U.S. government experts patched the system, the Financial Times was told.The government official stressed that the hackers got into the ... |
