Tune Out, Turn Off, Drop Offline: The digital divide is not just about the haves and the have-nots. It's also about the yawning gap between those who are comfortable using technology and those who fear or despise it. [...] The usual suspects turn out in conspicuously low numbers online: minorities, people with lower incomes, the elderly and disabled people, according to a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. But another group is gaining among the offline population. Seventeen percent of people surveyed are Internet dropouts. They were online once but were tripped up by technical problems that have kept them offline sometimes for a year or more. And 25 percent are online now but have dropped off in the past for a lengthy period of time for the same reasons, the study found. [houve um estudo interessante sobre isto há alguns anos cujo título era algo como: "foram surfar e voltaram para a praia"...] Another emerging group left out of the Internet revolution are those who have the opportunity to go online if they want to, but don't. A total of 80 million American adults - 42 percent of the adult population - say they don't use the Internet, the study found. But 20 percent of them have Internet access in the next room and choose not to go online. Or, some of them get family members to go online for them. [...] About 27 percent of Americans are completely removed from the online world, according to the study. They've never tried going online and aren't surrounded by anyone else who uses the Internet.

Porn spam - legal minefield for employers: Lewd e-mail promoting pornography may soon pose more than just a technical challenge in the ongoing fight against spam - experts say it's set to become an acute legal problem, too. Graphic images appearing unbidden on PCs by way of e-mail in-boxes could qualify as evidence of a "hostile work environment," something that's prohibited by federal employment law. As a result, porn spam could begin to crop up in sexual harassment complaints from employees offended by the material. Even if companies aren't the source of such messages, they could be liable for hefty civil fines if managers know that porn spam is a problem and don't move to address it.

Mona Lisa Lips-Synch

Court Hears Fight Over Numbers Used for Cellphones: The wireless telephone industry appealed to a federal court in Washington yesterday to block a government effort to allow consumers to keep their cellphone numbers when they switch mobile phone carriers.

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Cyberattacks with offline damage: What's virtual is virtual, and what's real is real. Right? Maybe not.

Google's Brave New World: David Brandt, president of Public Information Research, which publishes the Google-watch.org Web site, said there are privacy concerns surrounding the cookies Google loads onto users' computers. ‘Google’ for Cops: Software Helps Police Search for Cyber Clues to Bust Criminals In Searching the Web, Google Finds Riches: In the last few years, Google has risen as a force on the Internet by offering its smarter, faster searches as a free public service. Now the band of technoinsurgents who run the company are striking a blow against the business strategies of giant Web portals like America Online, Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN by rewriting the rules of Internet advertising.

Testing Microsoft and the DMCA: Taking a break from working on his doctoral thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate student Andrew "Bunnie" Huang decided that it might be fun to poke around the security systems protecting Microsoft's Xbox game console. With a little creative tinkering and a measure of precision soldering, Huang quickly isolated the main public security keys. Although legally prevented from sharing the keys with the world, he described his methods in detail in a widely distributed research paper, helping spur a wave of Xbox-hacking that has led to the development of Xbox versions of Linux and other homemade software.

Spyware - It's lurking on your machine

Stolen mobile rings in 'body cavity': Pandemonium broke out at a shopping mall in Negril on Monday, when a cellular phone which was stolen from a female shopper was found after it rang from within another shopper's vagina. Some bystanders were amused over the happenings, but some chided the young woman for sinking so low that she even embarrassed other women.

The Wi-Fi Revolution: The wireless Internet has arrived - and now the sky's the limit.

Viruses with a Cause: The viruses may be digital but their messages are political and try to make their mark upon the world

Mother of invention: How the Mosaic browser triggered a digital revolution The Killer Browser: It’s been only a decade since the release of Mosaic, the Web application that changed finance, commerce, culture - and the world ‘Out of Left Field’: Andreessen did Mosaic, then Netscape. He was at the center of the browser wars and dot-com mania. What’s he learned?

Steal this barcode: The Web site Re-Code.com parodies the design and chipper lingo of Priceline.com's "name your own price" shopping site. It invites shoppers to "recode your own price," by making their own barcodes using the site's barcode generator. The theory: There's just a 10-digit number standing between you and a better deal on anything that you want in a store, and this site will help you crack the code. The site's creators call it satire. Wal-Mart's legal counsel calls it an incitement to theft and fraud. [act.:] 'Bar Code' Web Site Closes Under Pressure

'Wayback Machine' Stars at Sex Court Trial: The mother of all Web sites dominated the "Sex Court" trademark trial Wednesday in Brooklyn. [...] The existence of the monster "Wayback Machine" - a service with a massive computer capacity of over 100 terabtyes - was disclosed to jurors in federal court in the suit brought by Playboy Enterprises against a Web enterpreneur Mario Cavalluzzo over use of the name "Sex Court."

Google washes whiter: Google has made its own statement on the 'Googlewash': by making The Register story that coined the phrase disappear from its search results. Report criticizes Google's porn filters: Children using Google's SafeSearch feature, designed to filter out links to Web sites with adult content, may be shielded from far more than their parents ever intended.

GoogleMovies: movie review opinion analyzer

Robodex 2003 (videos)

Internet ad revenue down 17% in 2002 In the Hands of Geeks, Web Advertising Actually Works: Useful ads that consumers like and are easy for businesses to manage.

Acrophobia is back! [aviso: jogo de acrónimos muito viciante :-)]

"Stupid Security" winners revealed (ver Stupid Security Competition)

Computers that watch while you work: Canadian researchers have designed a computer that pays attention to the person using it.

Marketer Challenges Anti-Spam Crusader

Eyes Over Baghdad: Our secret street-fighting weapon [drones]

Introducing the Laser Turntable: The record player without a needle!

Al Qaeda Website Refuses to Die: Repeatedly tossed off the Internet, a website believed to be al Qaeda's primary online method of communication continues to resurface as an uninvited guest on other websites.

The Invisible Web: Hidden Online Research Tools

Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed... in 42 days

Pioneer news site to end: One of the Internet's oldest news sites soon will vanish. The Nando Times will cease to exist within about 90 days, said Christian A. Hendricks, vice president of Interactive Media for the McClatchy Co., the Sacramento, Calif.-based parent of Nando Media and The News & Observer. The site no longer fits the company's strategy, Hendricks said.

Free content: Why not?: While the battle rages on, piling up legal fees and taking the joy out of music, a simpler solution is on the horizon. The best way to stem this tidal wave of thievery is to give the music away.

World's media conned by April Fool: Dutch P2P platform provider is a prank The project, called The Honest Thief, is a publicity stunt for a book with the same title

Microsoft Covets Google's Niche: "We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing," said Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN Internet services division. Visse said the company was making some significant investments in developing a better search engine. But the company has not offered specific plans. Microsoft Denies Paid-Search Plans: "Microsoft and MSN are completely committed to our relationship with Overture," said Bob Visse, director of marketing for MSN. "We have no intention of developing our own paid-search platform." Visse said the company continued to invest in search, but apart from the paid-listings area.

NASA excited by 'invisible' coat: Kazutoshi Obana's gray, hooded coat doesn't just keep him dry in a downpour. It can also make him seem invisible. [...] In fact, Tachi's "invisibility" coat is a camera trick. A video camera behind the coat is linked to a projector, which bounces the image off the front of the coat's reflective surface. Because there is no time lag between what's happening behind the wearer and the image cast on the front of the coat, the viewer has the illusion he is seeing straight through the coat.

That Championship Season, in Code: For 27 years, the Association for Computing Machinery has attracted teams of programmers from several dozen countries for the annual finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest. For five hours they code their hearts out, cramming a semester's worth of problem-solving into one exhausting, nerve-shattering morning. They are billed as the world's top young programmers, 263 standouts (only seven of them women) winnowed from a contestant pool of more than 23,000.

Google And The Big Brother Nomination

Got Game? Gaming, networks, multiplayer, strategy, personal technology, consoles, mobile

Does Security Mean Sacrificing Privacy? Given the backdrop of war, tightened national security, and new legislation aimed at expanding government powers, the discussions and debates due to take place at the 13th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in New York this week promises to be lively.

The Games People Slay: While many young men and women face the real and serious hazards of the war in Iraq, just as many - maybe more - in the United States are blowing up Baghdad on a regular basis from the comfort of their homes. As the war in the Gulf region moved into its second week and casualties on both sides mounted, a number of video games were emerging online that let players live out the conflict vicariously through their computers.

Sweden Beats U.S. as Top Web-Savvy Nation: Of the 60 countries surveyed, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan were at the bottom of the list with 2.37 and 2.52 points respectively out of a possible 10. Sweden scored 8.67, up from 8.32 a year ago. The United States was little changed at number three with 8.43 points, on par with the Netherlands and Britain. The differences were small between the top 14, all scoring more than eight points as a result of plentiful cheap Internet connections, software and technical support, legal and government frameworks and populations which think it is cool to spend time on the Net.

Cyberwarriors guard virtual front: As coalition forces continue to engage the enemy throughout Iraq, the number of battles being fought in cyberspace also has risen, according to one Army information assurance officer. High-Tech Tools of War: The U.S. military has integrated its formidable warfighting capability with higher technology and created a fighting force unmatched by any army, navy or air force in the world. The technology gap is so pronounced that the rest of the world may never catch up. The Doctrine of Digital War

PC screen turns into speaker: A British company called NXT has found a way to turn a computer display into a speaker, without interfering with the quality of the picture.

Samsung SGH-T500 Features for Women: - Biorhythm - Fatness Index - Calorie Calculator - Pink Schedule - Menstruation

Use a firewall, go to jail, and send Bill Gates too

Consider a cure for pernicious infobesity: Fundamentally, a person can absorb only so much information. For many centuries, we have assumed there was a shortage of information and, like our hunter-gatherer bodies, we have always been anxious to absorb more. But maybe we have reached the point where we should begin restricting our information intake to avoid infobesity.

Japan's Generation of Computer Refuseniks: Most teens and young adults in Japan rarely use computers to surf the World Wide Web. Instead they use cell phones to access a scaled-down wireless Web. The result: A growing computer literacy problem among Japan's youth.

What's So Free About This DVD? The documentary film Revolution OS was released Friday on DVD. The film features interviews with Linus Torvalds of Linux fame; Richard Stallman of the GNU/Free software project; Eric Raymond, author of Cathedral and the Bazaar (a treatise on marketing and open source); Rob Malda of hacker discussion and news site Slashdot; Larry Augustin, co-founder of VA Linux Systems; and others. In the spirit of open source, the DVD was released without CSS, the content scrambling system used on most commercial DVDs.

What to Do With All That Information: Why is data growing so fast and what should we do about it? Can companies take advantage of it to gain strategic advantage? Who is doing it right? What about our identity and security as consumers? Who, if anyone, is responsible for gathering and maintaining the mountains of information about each of us that grows daily in corporate and government databases? These were the topics to which Esther Dyson devoted her cutting-edge Platforms for Communications conference this year. She called it "Who? What? Where? Data Comes Alive."

NY Press' hidden text: If you highlight the left side of the page in the NY Press article, you get the hidden text in the page designed to be picked up by search engines

When a Free Download Isn't Free: Last week, writer Glenn Fleishman offered his book, Real World Adobe GoLive 6, as a free download. But instead of the few hundred downloads Fleishman expected, the book was downloaded about 10,000 times in just 36 hours. And because he's charged incrementally for bandwidth, Fleishman estimates he could be billed $15,000 at the end of the month -- possibly a lot more. "It's a financial catastrophe," said Fleishman.

'Social software' effectively combines the best of real and virtual worlds: The smaller the group, the more immediate value in the relationship. That's one notion behind an emerging phenomenon called "social software,'' products that help groups work with each other more effectively.

3D holo video arrives: Researchers from the University of Texas have devised a three-dimensional video system that cuts down the compute power needed to project three-dimensional images by using an 800,000-mirror device designed for two-dimensional digital projectors as a sort of holographic film.

UK workers succumb to email paranoia: UK workers are becoming increasingly paranoid about who exactly is reading their e-mail and also accidentally forwarding personal mails.

HP Thinks in 3D for Web Browsing: You are traveling through a dimly lit maze of brick walls with various posters looming back at you. Suddenly, you turn to view one and with a click of a mouse, a movie starts playing. It's not the latest video game - it's Hewlett-Packard's future vision of shopping online.

Terms of Disservice: The arrogance of technology companies knows no bounds. Consider the Terms of Service at a new company called Mailblocks, which says it'll block spam (unsolicited commerical e-mail) for you, for a price that includes not just money but also the right to send you commercial e-mail.

News sites at risk from cyber warfare: As the number of malicious Internet attacks escalates as a knock-on effect of the Iraq war, security companies have warned that online news sites are at risk. "News sites are primary targets for counterattacks, especially given the focus placed on a 'war of words' in the lead up to the conflict," said Kevin Foster, strategy director for security tester NTA monitor.

Is the CIA spamming Iraqi generals? It's the latest in high-tech psychological warfare: E-mail and voice-mail invitations to surrender. But so far there are few signs that the strategy is working.

The changing face of search engines

Blair Tagged as Privacy Threat: London-based Privacy International announced Monday its 2003 U.K. Big Brother Awards, which the group presents annually to "the most persistent and egregious privacy invaders in Britain." Simon Davies, the director of the civil liberties group, said the pool of candidates for the unprestigious prize had greatly expanded since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Portable PC pioneer dead at 64: Adam Osborne, whose successes and failures pioneering the first portable computer became one of Silicon Valley's great cautionary tales, is dead at 64 after a long illness.

Now It's Really Space War And for satellite outfits, it's time to roll up their sleeves The Pentagon's tactical Internet - a war too early? The Pentagon is furiously buying up commercial satellite capacity in order to meet the bandwidth needs of a new kind of IT-driven war, reports the Washington Post. But Register sources suggest that the US military has other, rather larger problems in delivering on the digital battlespace vision. The Wired War Has Arrived: Unproven technology is seeing its first action as the U.S. Army outfits soldiers with latest computers and telecom devices

E-mail reveals real leaders: Want to know how your organization really works - who speaks to whom, who holds the power? Then study the flow of internal e-mail, say scientists at global technology firm Hewlett-Packard.

Cyberterror and professional paranoiacs: The U.S. war on Iraq has begun. Now wait for the hype about "cyberwar" and "cyberterrorism" to follow. Are We Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks? Most organizations say they're getting more serious about security, but the risks are still growing. Feds Alert to Web Security Threat

it's all lost and stoof Ah cain't find th' page yer lookin' fer. - Southern American Wuhloss, man, de page yuh lookin for ent here!! - Bajan It's not there, eh? - Canadian j00 f001, 7|-|47 p4g3 d0|\|'7 eXi57! y0u sux0rz. - 1337/h4x0r Dude? - West Coast US A página que você procura não existe. - Brazilian Portugese A keresett lap vagy megszünt, vagy máshová került. - Hungarian La página que estás buscando no existe. - Spanish Essa página não existe. A última vez que a vi foi ali no bar da esquina.... - Portugese (Portugal) L'URL che avete richiesto non e' presente su questo server. - Italian E página ku bo ta buska no ta eksistí mas. - Papiamentu Pagina quam tu quaeris abest. - Latin Non podo atopa-la páxina que andas a procurar. - Galego a koalo ma pang pang sang no dja. - Surinamese Sócio, a página que tavas á procura fugio, foi de boca... - Portugese Slang

U.S. May Use 'E-Bomb' in Iraq Invasion, designed to render Saddam Hussein's forces blind, deaf, dumb and incapable of retaliation. The highly classified bomb creates a brief pulse of microwaves powerful enough to fry computers, blind radar, silence radios, trigger crippling power outages and disable the electronic ignitions in vehicles and aircraft.

Killer stalks cell phones in Europe: A short text message is spelling death for cell phones in Europe. The wireless e-mail, among the 1 billion sent each day on the continent, can freeze or completely disable two cell phones made by German handset maker Siemens, spokesman Jacob Rice said [...] The e-mails contain a single word, taken from the phone's language menu, surrounded by quote marks and preceded by an asterisk, such as "*English" or "*Deutsch", Siemens said. Opening the short text message on a Siemens 35 series cell completely disables it, Rice said. Siemens 45 series phones are less impacted and can be resuscitated after about two minutes of work, Rice said. Both phones are sold only in Europe.

Details on Matrix Phone Emerge: First details of the handset surfaced in February when Samsung opened a teaser Web site, at TheMatrixPhone.com, which provided no details of the telephone but did offer a chance to register for e-mail news on the device.

Spectrum for All: Why sell wireless spectrum to the highest bidder? Maybe the FCC should offer it up for free, columnist Lawrence Lessig suggests, redefining it as a form of public property—with minimum regulations.

Surveillance Nation: Webcams, tracking devices, and interlinked databases are leading to the elimination of unmonitored public space. Are we prepared for the consequences of the intelligence-gathering network we’re unintentionally building?

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Who's Winning Privacy Tug of War? If you opt to protect your privacy, you'll regret it. That's what some businesses apparently would like consumers to think. Privacy is set to become even more of a key issue for businesses and government over the next few months, as some firms fight to retain what they believe is a key provision of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a federal law that restricts who can access credit information and how it can be used.

Table Manners for Geeks: In Virginia, graduating IT students get lessons in good manners.

Internet Fixes: Sneakier spam, wilier worms, more aggravating ads...no wonder it feels like your PC is under assault. Fight back with these simple steps for keeping the latest pests at bay.

Frog Design/Motorola Offspring Wearables Concept: The design is only a concept at this point, although Motorola is preparing for user testing, and plans to bring a product based on the design to market within two years.

Are Windows Broadband Users at Risk? Attackers may be targeting home users with high-speed access.

Big Blue Meets Big Brother: IBM details plans to offer digital video surveillance systems The new services are designed to help companies make a transition from older, videotape-based surveillance systems to IP-based surveillance networks, IBM said in a statement.

The Way We Were: Wired's 10th anniversary

Software Pioneer Quits Board of Groove: Mitchell D. Kapor, a personal computer industry software pioneer and a civil liberties activist, has resigned from the board of Groove Networks after learning that the company's software was being used by the Pentagon as part of its development of a domestic surveillance system.

Sony to Introduce PlayStation 3 in 2003, two years ahead of schedule, to widen its lead over rivals

PC Magazine Top 100 Web Sites

Wireless net offered with a pint: People will soon be able to surf the internet from the comfort of their local pub as wireless hotspots reach out to the country's favourite location. There are already around 200 so-called wireless hotspots in cafes, hotel and service stations across the UK. In July, this network will extend to 3,000 pubs in the UK. [act.:] McDonald's to Offer Wireless Internet: By year's end, McDonald's will extend the access to 300 McDonald restaurants in New York City, Chicago and a yet-unannounced California town

O poder das portas USB: uma escova de dentes, um aquecedor de canecas e uma coberta!!! [via Harrow Group]

Military Now Often Enlists Commercial Technology: Technology like fiber optic-laced clothing, head-mounted computer displays, global satellite phones, impromptu wireless networks and rugged laptop computers that the military may use in Iraq or future conflicts have largely descended from ideas originally conceived in Silicon Valley and other commercial enclaves.

World of Ends: What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else. 1. The Internet isn't complicated 2. The Internet isn't a thing. It's an agreement. 3. The Internet is stupid. 4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value. 5. All the Internet's value grows on its edges. 6. Money moves to the suburbs. 7. The end of the world? Nah, the world of ends. 8. The Internet’s three virtues: a. No one owns it b. Everyone can use it c. Anyone can improve it 9. If the Internet is so simple, why have so many been so boneheaded about it? 10. Some mistakes we can stop making already

Usability News: a free web newsletter that is produced by the Software Usability Research Laboratory (SURL). The SURL team specializes in software/website user interface design research, human-computer interaction research, and usability testing and research.

New Cornell U. System Will Meter Network Use and Charge for 'Extreme' Amounts: Cornell University officials have developed a new "pay by the drink" billing system that will charge students and employees incrementally for Internet use as a way of controlling what officials call "irrational consumption" of bandwidth. Cornell's costs for providing Internet services - currently about $1.4-million a year - are going up by more than 40 percent annually, and the university says it had to do something to moderate that spending, or at least find a fairer way to recover its expenses. [Acabaram-se os almoços gratuitos?...]

Next Windows leaks onto Net: Microsoft did not identify the source of the leak, which is still circulating on the Web and on Internet relay chat. But Jim Cullinan, Microsoft Windows lead product manager, said the leaked version of Longhorn is authentic.

Net speed record smashed: Scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute

Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes: Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA.

nU fonetics: duz txt msgN mAk U :-) o :-( ? [Translation]

Microsoft promises end to 'DLL hell': When Windows Server 2003 ships in April, it will use .Net Framework 1.1 to get rid of one of the biggest headaches for Windows users and administrators alike, says Microsoft. [Não!!!!...]

Lost in cyberspace: The Bush administration’s war against a bogus threat [with the "National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace"]

Lucro da Portugal Telecom subiu 27% para 391 milhões de euros em 2002: Este valor é superior ao previsto pelos analistas contactados pela agência Lusa, que antecipavam uma subida entre 20 e 24% dos resultados líquidos, para entre 357 e 381 milhões de euros.

Net Cafe to Make Camp on Everest: Fifty years after two men conquered Mount Everest, a native Sherpa is determined to set up a cybercafe at the 17,400-foot-high base camp of the world's highest mountain. Besides freezing temperatures and storms, there is no electricity or plumbing at the site. There aren't any permanent buildings, either.

Tavern owner shoots his computer 4 times: How many times have you wanted to shoot your computer? Well, George Doughty was plenty PO'd and blasted his P.C. Doughty says his laptop crashed once too often. So, he allegedly shot it four times as customers watched in his Sportsman's Bar and Restaurant in Lafayette, Colo. The dead computer is now hanging as a trophy on the wall of the tavern.

Password Strength Meter: Your password will be checked for complexity against the guidelines [...]. In addition, your password will also be checked against a hacking dictionary containing commonly used passwords and keystroke combinations.

Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved

A Decade on the Net by Greg R. Notess, Reference Librarian Montana State University On this tenth anniversary of that first column proclaiming the meeting of the Internet with the online searching world, much has changed. Looking back over 10 years' worth of columns gives a snapshot of the growth of the Internet as a major information resource and a look at how it has changed.

Portugal: Acesso à Internet atinge 5,17 milhões de subscrições no final de 2002 A banda larga assumiu-se como o segmento deste mercado com as taxas de crescimento de adesões mais elevadas, ainda que, no universo de todas as subscrições de serviço, a sua representatividade não ultrapasse os 5%. Ainda assim, o número de clientes de serviços de banda larga – ADSL e cabo incluídos – atingiu os 260 mil no final de 2002, contra menos de 97 mil no final do ano anterior, consubstanciando um crescimento que rondou os 169%. O acesso por cabo, oferecido comercialmente desde 1999, representou por si só 80% de todos os acessos à Internet por banda larga, o equivalente a 207 mil clientes no final de 2002, contra menos de 94 mil no final de 2001. O acesso por ADSL, iniciado em 2001, representou os restantes 20%. Em valores absolutos, o número de clientes ascendeu a 52 mil no final de 2002, contra 18 mil no final de 2001. O crescimento da base de clientes ADSL cresceu, assim, num ano, cerca de 189%. Os acessos via dial up – aqueles que inicialmente eram designados por acessos “gratuitos” - continuam, todavia, a ser os mais utilizados em Portugal, representando 95% de todos os acessos registados, tendo crescido cerca de 46% entre os quartos trimestres de 2001 e 2002.

Hacker hacking could be legal: Striking back at computers that are attacking a company or home network could be legal under federal nuisance laws, a technology-law expert [Curtis Karnow] said [...] However, Karnow warned that counterattacks would have to be used judiciously and only to a limited extent. "The real problem is collateral damage," he said. "Suppose you screw up - you hit the wrong machine (or) you shut down an entire computer rather than just a process. What happens if you are sued, not by a bad guy, but by an intermediary who was affected by your counterstrike?" Such issues should continue to deter anyone considering hacking back, he said.

Latest ID theft scam: Fake job listings Internet job board Monster.com, acknowledging a growing problem for online career sites, is e-mailing millions of job seekers, warning that fake listings are being used to gather and steal personal information.