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* SH Weekly | SIWeexly.com | Ive . ARCHIVE SEARCH ® \{e9} NEWS & FEATURES: LETTERS DINING CULTURE MUSIC FILM NIGHT & DAY CLASSIFIED ROMANCE [PROMOTIONS —_| WEB EXTRA ARCHIVE UNBUTTONED ABOUT US CAREERS ALL INF ATE 9 WS DUALS LLY LU Ladungs aecaes aruaryy SETH I5 UNCLA: ia TI A Duty to Hack «BACK Actually, Hacker Quarterly began publishing its tips, trade secrets, and commentaries way back in 1984, about the time computer espionage exploded into the national consciousness. The previous year had brought the popular film War Games, which starred Matthew Broderick as @ computer wiz kid who mistakenly cracks into the military's nuclear- combat simulator computer and saves the world by programming the machine to play tick-tack-toe. The first high-profile arrests of real hackers occurred around the same time, when the FBI busted six teenagers from Milwaukee known as the 414 Gang (named after the local area code), who broke into more than 60 computers, including those at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sloan-Kettering Memoria! Institute. But the hacking tradition didn't start with criminality -- it started with graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early 1960s. Tapping into the mainframe computer in the artificial intelligence lab, they pushed the boundaries of programs and earned the complimentary nickname “hacker.” The Internet, of course, remained largely unexplored until the persona!-computer boom of the 1980s, and it only became a staple of American fife with the advent of e- commerce in the 1990s. As capital entered the flow of the information highway, hackers began finding more and more pathways closed to them, and the relationship between companies and intruders grew Paola Vescla Standing outside a Greyhound terminal with his Palm Top, Lamo says he always drifts back to San Francisco because the city is "big enough to wander in but smali enough to not be impersonal." this waekig NERS . From the Week of Wednesday, April 16, 2003 Matt Smith Remembrance of a War Past An unfond look back at Freedom Toast, TV jingoes, and a pro-war bully called Tony Hail Night Crawler Girls Wrestling in Jell-O While Bikers How! What'd you expect on “Road Rash" night at Jezebel's Joint? Dog Bites Culture Klatsch When the Burning Man folks met the Air Force guys, the desert camping tips flew Bedford. 415-5¢ FBI(19-cv-1495)-181 http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2003-04-16/feature.btml/2/ index.html 6/20/2003