Word: caperers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alan B. Langerman '85, a Harvard computer expert, reacted to the Cornell caper with a chuckle. "Security precautions make me laugh when I read about them," he said this week, explaining. "There guys didn't know enough. There are ways so cover your tracks. It's a contest of programming skill between the guys who are trying to break in and the guys who are trying to catch them... The latter are getting a lot better...
...Sloan-Kettering caper and this summer's hit movie WarGames-the story of a young computer buff who nearly sets off a nuclear war when he accidentally gets into one of the Defense Department's most sensitive machines-have focused attention on a serious question: How to safeguard information stored inside computers? The potential for fraud is awesome. The American banking system alone moves more than $400 billion between computers every day. Corporate data banks hold consumer records and business plans worth untold billions. Military computers contain secrets that, if stolen, could threaten U.S. security. Many of these...
...claims he did, was not as clear. Washington press pundits continued to speculate last week that either Baker or Casey, who represent rival political factions among Reagan's top advisers, will have to be sacrificed after FBI and congressional investigators complete their separate probes of the briefing-book caper. One top aide, perhaps self-protectively, predicted, however, that "everyone will keep his head...
...means; that the Reagan campaigners may have got information from employees of the FBI and CIA (see NATION). Still, no specific claim of a crime has been lodged against the Reagan campaign, let alone proved. On the known facts, at least some of the ballyhooing of the briefing book caper looks less like vigilance in defense of liberty than like a case study in sanctimony...
...Scotland Yard, the Conduit Street caper was more than Britain's biggest gemstone robbery ever. It was the latest in a series of carefully planned and superbly executed thefts that have netted criminals more than $30 million in less than three months. The professionalism displayed in the capers and the fact that, increasingly, guns are involved suggest that a more sophisticated and more daring class of thief is at work. "Criminals are stopping and thinking," says a London detective. "These jobs indicate planning. They are not just a matter of grabbing a wig and a sawed-off shotgun...