HACKER GETS OSCAR NEWS FROM HOME COMPUTER.Byline: Evan Henerson Staff Writer A controversial ``guess list'' of Oscar predictions printed on an Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Web site a day before the 2000 Academy Award nominations were announced has been traced to the home computer of an ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. free-lance v. i. 1. to work on a free-lance basis; to work as a freelancer. Noun 1. free-lance - a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them employee. The information came from a list that ABC employees would use to test the Oscar Web site prior to the actual announcements of the 2000 Oscar nominees, said officials from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was not a sneak peek at an official academy voting record as the Ain't ain't Nonstandard 1. Contraction of am not. 2. Used also as a contraction for are not, is not, has not, and have not. Usage Note: Ain't has a long history of controversy. It Cool News Web site had originally claimed. Harry Knowles Knowles is a surname, and may refer to many people. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
The ABC employee, whose name was not released, was preparing information about potential nominees in advance of the actual announcement, said academy executive administrator Ric Robertson. Somehow, Robertson said, Knowles managed to tap the database that the employee used because the employee was working from home, using a computer that does not have the same security as on-site ABC computers. Neither the academy nor the firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which conducts the voting for the academy, provided any information to ABC in compiling com·pile tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles 1. To gather into a single book. 2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: the lists, Robertson said. ``What was disturbing was the suggestion that this came from deep in the halls of the academy,'' said Robertson. ``The ABC.com team, like everybody else, develops a list of possible and probable nominees. They had a lot of information ready to go at 5:38 a.m. Tuesday when the nominations were announced. The information hacked Modified. Attacked. Having code altered. See hack and hacker. into was part of all that.'' The list, printed by Knowles, correctly guessed all 20 acting nominees and four of the five best-picture nominees. The academy is still trying to determine how Knowles ``knew to hack into'' the ABC employee's database, Robertson said. |
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