If computers that cannot be hacked revolutionize the Internet next year, you can thank two guys named Eric who were just looking to get some sleep. They come from a cyberspace neighborhood on the wrong side of the tracks--where the dull folks live. They're the ones who design chips that run cell phones Latest News about cell phone cell phones, pacemakers, home appliances and hundreds of other machines.
And, until recently, they didn't mess around with the Internet. Now, the two former Motorola Inc (NYSE: MOT) Latest News about Motorola. engineers -- Eric Hauk and Eric Uner -- run a consulting firm that hosts Web sites for clients. And that's where the problems began.
Hauk and Uner, engineers used to reliable equipment, felt like they'd been dropped into an alien land once they got entangled in the World Wide Web. Vandalism attacks kept the pair busy installing software patches to thwart hackers. They constantly were restarting crashed computers.
They were working weekends and holidays, but the worst thing, said Uner, was getting paged at 3 a.m. when things went wrong.
