Word: computerizes
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Last May, Stoll published an article about his pursuit of the Trojan horsemen in a technical journal, Communications of the Association for Computer Machinery.
Clifford Stoll, a 38 year-old computer expert at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory, broke the East European spy ring by setting up a complex monitoring system on his computer.
The astronomer originally started out in 1986 to find a 75-cent accounting error in his computer system. When he found that the extra charge was due to a mysterious hacker who had tapped into his system, he rigged his computer so that an electronic beeper would sound every time...
"I would say he was largely responsible for cracking the case," said Charles S. Hurley, former spokesperson for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., where Stoll was working when the initial computer break-in occurred. "He pursued them with extraordinary persistence."
To hide their location, he said, they attacked military computers via modems, or telephone computer links, through a constantly changing series of computers at West German universities, American research labs and defense contractors.