The hacker doesn't even need to be in the same ZIP code to crack a firewall or VPN -- the 3G link lets the Power Pwn take bash command-line instructions through SMS messages and doles out some of its feedback the same way.

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At that time a lot of companies wanted to crack the code on seamless digital rights management.

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He was staring down at the checkerboard pattern on the linoleum floor, as if it were a code he was trying to crack.

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He'd prefer to see them try to "crack the code for the big family comedy, " a la Family Ties and The Cosby Show, since its broad-based appeal and subsequent financial upside is that much greater.

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On the side he invented a precursor to the Vigenere cipher, a code so strong it took three centuries to crack.

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Researchers in the United States have already taking steps to crack the genetic code of the virus behind the swine flu outbreak in order to produce a vaccine, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

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