The CabinCr3w group of Anonymous has also been involved in the hacking activities targeting the Bay Area Rapid Transit District after BART shut down cell phone access to riders.

Many of the Guardian readers condemning the NotW for its hacking activities are precisely the same people who celebrate the hacking and theft of data by Wikileaks for later publication in the Guardian itself.

"The openness and frequency of their hacking activities gave me the impression that hacking was considered a bog-standard journalistic tool for gathering information."

There are several other now unclassified reports that describe ethical hacking activities within the U.S. military.

Jinan is likely to remain a focus of investigations into global hacking activity.

The fact that Johnson and Candleman regarded his hacking activities as nothing short of black magic had helped enormously, for they'd granted him the sort of working privacy which had been the prerogative of wizards throughout history.

Hess's hacking activities were discovered by Clifford Stoll, an astronomer turned systems administrator of the computer center of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) in California.

Ben Sisario of The Times discusses a new anti-piracy partnership between entertainment companies and Internet service providers and David Perry of Trend Micro chats about recent high-profile hacking activity.

Most notably, certain government and financial institution computers may have been denied previously existing federal protection; some hacking activities may have been inappropriately decriminalized; and certain insider conduct may have been inappropriately criminalized.