Guerrilla geeks of the world unite! Whether it's Vietnamese student techies taking on the state, South Koreans trying to rewrite Japanese history, antiglobalization protesters pinching presidential credit cards or the latest Web wars between American and Chinese zealots, hackers are getting . . .
Guerrilla geeks of the world unite! Whether it's Vietnamese student techies taking on the state, South Koreans trying to rewrite Japanese history, antiglobalization protesters pinching presidential credit cards or the latest Web wars between American and Chinese zealots, hackers are getting highly organized. And potentially dangerous.

The recent much-hyped online skirmishes triggered by the China--U.S. spy plane controversy are just the latest example of what computer-security experts fear is an increasingly alarming trend in organized hack attacks.

Vietnam's state-owned Internet service provider (ISP), which handles 30% of the country's traffic, recently received a letter from "the Vietnam Hacker Association" threatening to launch crippling assaults if the ISP reveals hackers' identities to the police. University students have apparently been stealing -- and selling -- passwords that let them surf the Net on other people's tabs, running up thousands of dollars in bills.

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