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Today's Lesson From Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam
by John Archibald Wheeler
An oversimplified way to describe the outcome of [Everett's] reasoning
is to say that all the things that might happen (with various
probabilities) are in fact happening. . . .
To see what this means, think of yourself driving down a road and coming
to a fork. According to classical physics, you take one fork, and that's
that. According to the conventional interpretation of quantum mechanics,
you might take one fork or you might take the other, and which one you
take will not be known until something happens to pin down your
location, such as stopping at a gas station or restaurant, where some
outside "observer" ascertains your location. There is something ghostly
about the conventional quantum interpretation, since it assumes that you
travel "virtually" (as opposed to "really") down both roads at once,
until it is established that you "really" traveled down a particular
fork. According to the Everett interpretation, you go down both roads.
If you later stop for gas on the left fork and someone observes you
there and you are yourself aware of being there, that doesn't mean there
isn't another "you," uncoupled from the left-fork you, who stops to eat
on the right fork, is observed by people there, and is aware of being
there. Bryce DeWitt, my friend in Chapel Hill, chose to call the Everett
interpretation the "many worlds" interpretation . . .
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Hacking for Jesus
Feds vs. Hackers: The Battle Widens
FBI and Senate shut down Web sites after a series of attacks; skirmishes
waged with search warrants and Internet sieges
The US Senate web site, before it was shut down. Mod Kix Ass.
Computer attacks on the FBI and U.S. Senate Web sites are leading to a
broader criminal investigation into such intrusions, officials indicated
Friday. The latest skirmish between federal authorities and Web site
attackers began Wednesday with FBI raids on purported members of a group
called gH, or Global Hell, in at least three states — and has continued
with a protest campaign targeting a wide spectrum of Internet sites.
THE FBI and Senate Web sites remained inaccessible Friday as a result of
the computer attacks. The FBI shut down its Web site Wednesday after it
was swamped by a denial-of-service attack. The Senate took its site
offline Thursday night after attackers broke into the public computer
server and replaced the congressional body’s home page with a screed
against the FBI. The hacked page claimed credit on behalf of a group
known as the Masters of Downloading, or M0D — and denigrated the FBI as
well as Global Hell.
"The FBI may be all over the other groups like ... gH and tK. ... M0D
make those morons look like a group of special-ed students! FBI vs. M0D
in ’99, bring it on!” read the page, which was peppered with ruder
comments and hacker lingo.
The intrusion “compromised our Senate Internet Web site, and as a result
the Senate has taken down our Web page to do some investigation,” said
Sherry Little, a spokeswoman for the Senate sergeant-at-arms, who
manages the site. She said FBI agents were involved in the
investigation.
They're looking at the criminal aspects of it,” she told MSNBC. “They’re
in charge of the investigation, in that they’re trying to determine
where it came from and whether there was any connection at all to any
incidents that they’ve explored in the past.” The Web outage rendered
the official home pages of all 100 senators and senatorial committees
inaccessible, but e-mail and other computer services not related to the
public Web site were unaffected, Little said.
System administrators for the FBI and the Senate Web sites were beefing
up site security during the down time — and no one could say exactly
when the sites would be returned to service. “We’re not expecting this
to be a long-term problem,” Little said.
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES
The FBI was continuing its investigation into the attack on its own Web
site, said Dave Miller, a media representative at the bureau’s national
office. He confirmed that “this could result in criminal penalties.”
Although he declined to provide specifics on the investigation, Miller
told MSNBC that “it would be a logical point” that the FBI would look
for connections to past attacks on federal Web sites.
Earlier this month, Global Hell was implicated in attacks on a variety
of U.S. government sites, including sites for the White House, several
Cabinet departments and the U.S. Information Agency. Last week, Global
Hell member Eric Burns (who also goes by the name Zyklon), was arrested
in connection with three attacks on government computers. Members of
Global Hell reported that law-enforcement officials served search
warrants early Wednesday in Seattle, Houston and California.
In Houston, FBI spokesman Rolando Moss told MSNBC that agents were
investigating “allegations of computer intrusions” involving a teen-ager
who uses the hacker handle “Mosthated.” He said the investigation was
continuing and declined further comment.
6 A.M. RAID
In telephone conversations with MSNBC, Mosthated said that his home was
raided at about 6 a.m. CT Wednesday, and that family computer equipment
was confiscated. He said his parents were “really mad. ... The computer
had all their financial information and stuff on it.” Mosthated’s mother
got on the line to read from the FBI’s receipt for the equipment and
confirm that she was “really mad.”
Mosthated said at least eight other people around the country had been
served with search warrants as part of “a huge hacker crackdown.” Four
other Houston-area hackers, three in California and one in Seattle
reportedly received FBI visits. None was arrested, but all had computer
equipment confiscated, he said.
An FBI representative in San Diego said she could not comment on the
investigation because the paperwork was sealed. Inquiries with the
bureau’s Seattle office met with a similar response: “Right now there
are still things that need to be decided,” one agent told MSNBC on
condition of anonymity. The bureau’s Web site went out of service only
hours after the raids.
According to AntiOnline, a computer security site, an individual calling
himself Israeli Ghost was taking credit for the attack on the FBI’s
site.
"FBI will not (profanity deleted) [profanity reinserted: fuck] with my
friends from Global Hell,” the hacker allegedly wrote in an e-mail to
AntiOnline.
Other members of the hacking community, contacted by MSNBC, said the FBI
site was hit by what’s called a denial-of-service attack. In such an
attack, the host computer is not actually controlled by an outsider;
rather, outsiders bombard a Web site with so many simultaneous hits that
it becomes overwhelmed and can no longer function.
Mosthated said he didn’t know who was responsible for the
denial-of-service attack. The FBI did ask some cursory questions about
this month’s attack on the White House Web site. He said he was shown
printouts of Web stories about the incident from MSNBC and CNN. “But
they didn’t really push those questions,” Mosthated said.
As the day went on, other Web sites — none of which had any apparent
connection to the FBI — were defaced. A correspondent claiming to be a
Global Hell member called Infamous sent an e-mail message to MSNBC
Wednesday night criticizing the FBI and saying he “defaced over 40 web
domains today to state my opinion.” The writer’s identity could not be
confirmed, however.
"THIS NEEDS TO STOP"
The response to the raids has spread through the digital underground and
taken on a life of its own, a spontaneous act of retaliation that wasn’t
asked for.
"The retaliation has to stop,” Mosthated said. “All this ... needs to
stop. Have you seen all the Web pages that have been changed in the last
hour? Someone told me that there’s been more than a hundred,” he said.
"This (retaliation) is just going to look worse on the people that did
get raided,” said the 18-year-old Mosthated, who says he stopped hacking
last summer to set up his own security firm.
This impromptu show of support is going to backfire, he told MSNBC.
“Everything that gH has done is going to be put on my shoulders,” owing
to his position as the group’s founder. The FBI agents who executed a
search warrant on Mosthated said they were looking for evidence related
to “illegal telecom activity,” he said, in particular illegally set-up
conference calls. “The FBI told me some company lost $250,000 because of
the illegal conference calling activity,” he said.
Mosthated and other sources indicated that the FBI appeared to be
targeting other figures prominent in the hacker community. AntiOnline
published a list of almost 100 computer handles, purportedly taken from
directives sent by the FBI to Internet service providers.
MSNBC News, May 28, 1999
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