Another day of teenage angst. A group of teenage hackers chose the latter, breaking into India's Bhabha Atomic Research Center as a protest to nuclear testing. Perhaps the CIA could have used their help.
Garage bands are so five minutes ago.
Yet this hardly sticks out among the humdrum of endless hacker tales, the stories of so much left unprotected and the armies of intelligent, well-armed security crackers. Hackers have written and used such tools for years, but they weren't always as elegant as this breed. Another one of my favorites is the Centerfold of Network Computing. The accompanying summary sometimes even mentions specific hardware models and OS versions. Last year the issue published just prior to DefCon V featured the network of the New York, New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.