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An Interview with the father of the Internet

posted onDecember 16, 2001
by hitbsecnews

By: L33tdawg

A few weeks back I posted a call for questions for an interview HITB would be conducting with Mr. Vinton Cerf - the person many have titled the 'Father of the Internet'. While the aim was to ask Mr. Cerf technically slanted questions, it turned out to be a much more mixed bag of questions that we received. Eitherways, read on to see what Mr. Cerf had to say about things from hackers being terrorists to IPV6.

HITB: How important do you think IPv6 is to the growth and evolution of the Internet?

Flawed Internal Setups by Example

posted onDecember 16, 2001
by hitbsecnews

By: presto

1. High School Havoc
2. College Calamity
3. Conclusion; Reason for Exposes

1. “High School Havoc”

In high school, it was a lot fun hacking at their network. My goal was to have enough access where as I could use the entire network as a bounce, to fiddle around with better things. And being that most public schools lack any real security funding or staff, it wasn’t all that hard.

When Does Gaming Become Unhealthy?

posted onNovember 18, 2001
by hitbsecnews

Note: This article first appeared over at our affiliates site http://www.brassknuckles.net. The original article can be found here

By: Archfiend

Why do people play online games? For fun right? But when does is it stop being fun and when does it start becoming a compulsion? Why would anyone keep playing a game when it's no longer "fun"?

WCG Malaysia: A Quaker's POV

posted onNovember 18, 2001
by hitbsecnews

By: biatch0

20th October 2001 – 90% of the Quake playing population arrive at 11AM sharp, simply because someone seemingly important said that configuration files were to be handed in before
11AM, or those who didn’t would risk having to configure Q3A manually (oh
horrors).