Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was something about the scheme that just did not compute. Under a recent contract between the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. prison system, 45 inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington, Ky., were set to work entering data from thousands of applications for...
Chemical apparently decided to cut its losses after investing tens of millions of dollars. At the moment, other institutions plan to give the technology more time, but if customer interest does not pick up, there are likely to be more dropouts from the home-banking business. "For a technology to...
Even the most dangerous criminal suspects are usually allowed access to a telephone, but not Kevin Mitnick -- or at least not without being under a guard's eye. And then he is permitted to call only his wife, mother and lawyer. The reason is that putting a phone in Mitnick...
Mitnick, who was arraigned last week in Los Angeles and is being held without bail, faces a possible 30 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. His alleged crimes include gaining illegal access to computers at Digital Equipment Corp., in Massachusetts, and at the University of Leeds, in England...
Mitnick has apparently compiled a long history of computer capers. At 17 he used the phone system to enter Pacific Bell's computer network and steal electronically stored technical manuals, earning himself six months in a juvenile-detention facility followed by probation. Perhaps not coincidentally, the judge in the case...