Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arpanet computer network by infecting it with a self-duplicating electronic virus, the Pentagon learned that one of its smaller military information systems, Milnet, had been broken into by an unknown hacker. Last week Mitre Corp., a Massachusetts-based defense contractor, warned the Pentagon that someone had gained unauthorized access to Mitre's system, which is linked to the Arpanet network. Fortunately, the invader had access only to nonclassified material, and none of it was damaged. Nevertheless, the Defense Department severed Milnet's connection to Arpanet until software experts could come up with...
Pandiscio said that Continental Cable iscurrently installing taps for cable servicethroughout the Harvard campus. Intended primarilyfor educational purposes, four taps will go toRadcliffe and 7 to ten will go to Harvard. Eachtap will provide access to strictlynon-entertainment services, but retain thecapacity to be easily upgraded to carryentertainment. As it stands now, however, none ofthese cable taps is slated to go into aresidential dorm...
Morris' legal fate depends on the interpretation of a handful of newly enacted or applied federal laws, Frusciante said. These laws--especially the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1984, a statute prohibiting unauthorized access to stored computer records and a longstanding wire fraud act--represents the federal government's frontline against a new technological crimes...
According to sections under Title 18 of the U.S. Code, "Intent without authority to access or causing to be accessed [a computer file] that is exclusively reserved for the government of the United States..[and such access] affects the government's [operation] of its computers by means of altering...damaging...destroying...or preventing authorized use" is a felony, punishable by a maximum of a $1000 fine and a one-year prison sentence...
According to the 1986 act, federal authoritiesmust show that Morris had "intent, withoutauthority, to access" government computerfacilities and subsequently interfere withgovernment operations...