Word: carding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members receive, free of charge, an I.S.A.D.P.M. identification card decorated with a red slingshot, symbolic of David's battle with Goliath. They also get a year's subscription to Matusow's anticomputer newsletter, which he plans to start publishing soon. For 6s., they can get a copy of his 125-page The Beast of Business, a handbook of guerrilla tactics for computer haters that might have been conceived by Che Guevara...
...conservative function in mathematics and other sciences," Matusow allows, but "when the uses involve business or government, and the individual is tyrannized, then we make our stand." The methods he proposes for dealing with the Enemy are fiendishly sophisticated. No simple stapling, folding or mutilation of a computer card for him. "That will nullify the effect of the card," he says. "But it will make it easy to spot and will not have much effect on disrupting the system...
...first post was vice president in charge of television sets. Later he took over Hilton's Carte Blanche, lifting the credit-card operation from a $9,000,000 hole and making it profitable...
...fugitive mails a birthday card to his child, for example. It bears no address, but does have a postmark. Or he calls a friend from a pay phone to ask about the family; his approximate distance from home can be determined when the operator says, for instance, "Deposit $1.65 please." Those geographical leads are often enough for Tracers, says Vice President Edward Goldfader, because the runaways seldom alter the familiar pattern of their lives when they take up residence in a new city. They do not change their names, often because they fear their inability to respond naturally if someone...
Frequently, the fugitives are even more obvious: knowing that their credit-card bills will be mailed to their offices or homes, they start hinting their whereabouts by charging things, even insignificant items such as the 500 breakfast that one fugitive bought with his credit card. For a minimum fee of $500, Tracers turns over the new addresses of some 800 such runaway husbands to their wives each year-and finds that with only a little prodding, 90% of the husbands come home...