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...robbery was the biggest in the history of a nation famous for high-bracket heists.* By comparison, in the 1963 Great Train Robbery-Britain's most notorious caper and until recently the richest-thieves escaped with a relatively modest $7.3 million in bank notes from the Glasgow-London Royal Mail train near Mentmore, England. This year, however, the records have been falling fast. On Easter Monday, a team of masked men invaded the Security Express depot in London and made off with an estimated $10.5 million in cash receipts. Two months later, five armed men, three of them disguised...
...caper seems to have been executed with simple cat-burglary techniques. Sometime after dark, the thieves climbed a repairmen's scaffold on the west side of the imposing, neoclassical building. After scaling a 20-ft. stone wall, they reached one of the windows to the old masters' gallery. It was not protected by bars, so the thieves merely cut a hole in the glass, opened the latch, and slipped inside. The burglar alarm, museum attendants later admitted, had been out of order for three weeks...
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...
...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...