Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those figures on the Internet to entice Western investors. Resistance groups in countries like Iran put information on international computer networks that agency case officers once had to obtain from underground newspapers inside the nation. Movements of nuclear weapons-related equipment can sometimes be tracked by monitoring the electronic bulletin boards of shipping companies. "The information is out there," says Henry Clements with Technology Strategic Planning in Stuart, Florida. "But you have to know what to look for and how to look...
Sometimes, though, all it takes is the right question. Thomas V. Sobczak, a security expert with Application Configured Computers in Baldwin, New York, says he recently decided on his own to pose a simple question on an electronic bulletin board for aerospace engineers: "How good is aircraft stealth technology?" A dozen engineers, scientists and even an Air Force officer responded with data on materials used in Stealth planes, their design and the ways radars may spot the aircraft. It was, Sobczak says, "more information that I ever thought I ever would need...
...bulletin board," Parsons said."It's a decorative element. We hope there will bea lot of student involvement in using this as aform of artistic expression...
...physical evidence are relatively easy, but finding the ``location'' of computer evidence on a network -- or on the Internet -- can be downright metaphysical. Is the evidence really on this computer terminal, or is it being accessed from a hard disk in another state? In addition, searching a computer bulletin-board system with two gigabytes of data on it may require agents to spend weeks scanning through irrelevant material to find what they want. Last year Charney co-authored a set of federal guidelines for searching and seizing computers, designed to provide answers to some of these questions...
...downside is that, especially on the Internet and the adult bulletin- board systems, many people are going to see, hear and read things that are intensely pornographic. Some are not going to like it. Just knowing that this is going on will drive lots of people, including ambitious public officials, to ``do something'' about it. Another problem with cybersex is that it can be addictive and chew up large amounts of money. And it tends to leave a lot of things lying around in your computer that you surely wouldn't leave out on the coffee table. I mean, face...