, SecurityFocus 2004-08-18
It's a tale Tom Clancy might have written. From their lair in distant Romania, shadowy cyber extortionists penetrate the computers controlling the life support systems at an Antarctic research station, confronting the 58 scientists and contractors wintering over at the remote post with the sudden prospect of an icy death. After some twists and turns, the researchers are saved in the fourth act by an international law enforcement effort led by FBI agents wielding a controversial, but misunderstood, federal surveillance law.
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The internet can keep you from being bored to death. That, in and of itself, is a lifeline. Do they need it? maybe not. Does it keep life tolerable, you bet.
I dare you to turn your internet connection off, I bet you wouldn't last 10 months.
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