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This gives hackers a larger window of opportunity to ac cess the computer. “There are people out there, there’s no question about it, who go through [the Internet addresses] of cable providers and DSL providers, looking for machines that are connected and seeing if they have any open doors that they can get into,” said Milo Medin, chief technical officer of ExciteAtHome, which provides cable Internet service. CAMP HILL, Pa. (AP)—The plans for Nick Breach’s death were set for months. When the 14-year-old brain cancer pa tient seemed near the end, his parents would call 911. Local medics would rush him to the hospital. Get him there quickly, and Nick might be able to make good on his promise to donate his heart, lungs, kidneys and liver. Once the end finally came, just before midnight on Feb. 11, it came so suddenly that even the best-laid plans were not enough. Nick’s mother, Kim, then the medics, did CPR for 20 min utes in the living room. They tried again in the ambulance as it raced to the hospital at 70 mph. They never restarted his heart, and with the blood flow cut off to his vital or gans, surgeons could take only his corneas. Days later, most everyone reached the same conclusion: It was enough that he had tried. “He got people talking about organ do nation and got kids signing up to be organ donors,” said his father, Rick. “OK, it didn’t work out completely for Nick. But, God forbid, if it happens to somebody else's child who became an organ donor, it would potentially work out for them.” Nick's offer of his organs didn’t sur prise anybody who knew him. “That’s the kind of kid he is,” teacher Peggy Kunz said last month. “Even now, he’s thinking about the other people.” Long before the brain tumor took away his movement, then his speech, then his life, Nick’s ordinary generosity was made remarkable by his years of struggle, family, friends and teachers say. "When I found out about the second tumor, I wanted to give up hope. But now I can help other people." — Nick Breach Kunz recently asked eighth-graders at Camp Hill Middle School to write stories about Nick on 3-by-5-inch notecards. She got enough for a scrapbook. When a teacher gave the kids per mission to eat Tie-Tacs in class, the can dy-loving Nick brought a 10-pack to school and handed them out. When his grandmother’s pizza got cold at a restaurant, Nick jumped up to insist the cook reheat it. When a new kid ar rived at school, Nick was the first to introduce himself. His attempt to donate his organs was just the last, best story. When Nick faced his death, he worried about people left behind. “When I found out about the sec ond tumor, I wanted to give up hope,” he said last month, struggling to piece sim ple sentences together. “But now I can help other people.” Cancer first hit Nick when he was 5. Radiation zapped the tumor, and he was in remission for eight years. 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