The co-creator of Unix and the C programming language created the tools that built our modern digital world

When a Hotmail security breach exposed e-mail inboxes, I spied on a rival and learned more than I wanted to know.

DivX Networks aims to do for video what MP3s have done for music. Can it please both hackers and the movie biz? First of two parts.

Linus Torvalds' autobiography reveals a geek's geek who is changing the world, just for the heck of it.

Chapter 33: Steve draws a bead on The Man

"Extra Life" recalls what growing up with computers once was like -- and complains about what it has become

Sometimes the hacker is a country, and pointing fingers between world superpowers is always a dangerous game

Cellphone pornography is set to be the next wave of adult techno-entertainment. Too bad its creators haven't learned from history.

In Jeff Deaver's latest thriller, "The Blue Nowhere," a killer hacks his victims' computers, invades their lives and lures them to their deaths.

Let my software go!: By Andrew Leonard. Netscape was desperate for a new strategy against Microsoft. Eric Raymond, hacker guru, had one. An interview with the author of 'The New Hacker's Dictionary.'

Three books on the celebrated hacker case debunk one another's myths

The only way to stem the flood of unwanted e-mail may be to harness a million eyeballs and an army of open-source hackers.

"24" returns with another bad boss, another evil mastermind and another reason for Jack to play the renegade. But it clings a little too close for comfort to today's nightmares.

The web is a scary place, but modern open-source technologies funded by the Defense Department can help explore it