Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House, those running the NSC computer -- unbeknownst to North and his colleagues -- were keeping backup tapes of each file in the system, a routine practice. These backups, which are typically made on a daily or weekly basis, included copies of files containing the private notes of every NSC officer with a password. In response to requests from the Tower commission, White House Communications Agency programmers searched their storage tapes for NSC memos and eventually turned over a stack of printouts nearly 4 ft. high. Explains Donn Parker, a computer security specialist at SRI International: "It is so ingrained...
Unfortunately, computer users have little in the way of legal protection from such invasions of privacy, especially when they are working on a company- owned system. Recent court actions provide plenty of examples. In one case, the Government used computer backup tapes obtained by the FBI to help prove that a Pratt & Whitney employee was selling sensitive pricing data to a competitor. Lawyers for the employee argued that the FBI had violated his Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search by seizing messages from a storage device that constituted his personal "electronic file cabinet." The appeals court disagreed, saying that since...
...apply to those using public communications networks like the Source and CompuServe. The Electronic Communication Privacy Act, signed into law last fall, makes it a felony to intercept private messages sent through the networks and stipulates that law- enforcement officials must obtain a search warrant in order to examine backup copies stored in their computers...
...chromosome, females (who are born with two Xs, one inherited from each parent) are less often affected by the syndrome; their normal X chromosome can mask the effects of the faulty one. But males, who have one X and one Y sex chromosome, have no such backup and are therefore more susceptible. Still, for reasons that baffle scientists, not all females are protected, and some males are spared. "About 20% of males who inherit the gene are unaffected carriers, and about a third of all females who are carriers are affected," says Pediatrician Randi Hagerman, of Children's Hospital...
...they briefly were lovers. Their eight-year affiliation was productive and destructive; they were two strong wills making success possible and life miserable. "Aaron began booking me into theaters," Bette says, "and lo and behold, I was a big success. For our first full revue, we had our backup trio, the Harlettes, and a great band and girls in tap-dancing clothes and the jukebox and the mannequins and King Kong. It just blew me away!" Bette was a Broadway star...