It would be every computer hacker's dream. Working from home, playing the usual games, except this time breaking into computers alongside U.S. intelligence forces - hunting down Osama bin Laden's money through cyberspace. A German hacker claims his pals have done just that.. . .
It would be every computer hacker's dream. Working from home, playing the usual games, except this time breaking into computers alongside U.S. intelligence forces - hunting down Osama bin Laden's money through cyberspace. A German hacker claims his pals have done just that. And while most experts are skeptical of his claim, they concede that finding al-Qaida funds tucked away in banks around the world might require a few dirty digital tricks - either from inside the government or by "free-lancers."

IT WOULDN'T be the first time the U.S. government has undertaken covert computer attacks to track enemy money. In 1998, Newsweek raised the possibility of electronic banking warfare, speculating U.S. government agents had been authorized to "diddle" with funds belonging to Slobodan Milosevic. But at least in that case, the action required a "finding" signed by President Clinton to initiate the high-level spying.