Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME's Joshua Quittner says a serious security flaw found in Netscape, the most popular World Wide Web browser, probably won't cast a pall over emerging electronic commerce. Two University of California at Berkeley graduate students have found that a knowledgeable computer user could crack the system in less then a minute, potentially giving users access to information such as credit card or bank account numbers. Netscape Communications plans to rush out a secure version of the software next week. "This is an interesting academic exercise, but online transactions are still a relatively minor part of the Internet," Quittner...
Harvard occasionally being the bastion of pessimism that it is, here will surely be those who see the score of Saturday's game, sigh, and crack jokes about another bad year...
...prospering business with ruthless efficiency. Aside from a persistent, insoluble public relations problem--certain elements in the community despise him--he is a model of the entrepreneurial spirit that we like to believe made America great, and at 19 he has the ulcer to prove it. Strike is a crack dealer monopolizing the trade in a Brooklyn, New York, housing project...
...WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT SOME mistakes in your story so that my adopted daughter Robyn, who was mentioned in it, will not be unnecessarily burdened later in life when she explores her roots. Robyn was not crack addicted. Your reporter was told that at birth shetested positive for cocaine and barbiturates. Nor was she abandoned on the street. That happened to the first foster baby put in our care. Finally, the state of California never objected to our adopting Robyn, as a caption says; the problem was always with the city and county of San Francisco, which to this...
...experts believe. But only about 25 of those are detected, and only two or three of those detected are reported to security officials. This penetrability is a legacy of computers designed for ease of use and accessibility to the Internet (itself a Pentagon creation). The toughest Pentagon computer to crack is the first one; once inside, nearly 90% of the other computers linked to the first computer will recognize the intruder as a legitimate user. "Hackers say our computers are crunchy on the outside," says Van Wyk, "but soft and chewy on the inside...