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...long line of problematic events which point out the gaps in fully understanding technology. Are computers private? In the newly computerized business world, it depends on who you are, according to current laws. Employers who regularly monitor employees, retrieving even information which has been eliminated from its creator's files, seem to say the answer...
Unlike almost any other virus written, the Cornell virus was not designed to destroy files, steal or change data, play pranks on the users, or even allow its creator to gain illegal access to the infected networks--its sole purpose was to spread itself to every machine it found...
...greeting-card creator Susan Polis Schutz were fashioning a card to mark the event, it might feature a Day-Glo rainbow anchored in a pot of gold. Schutz and her husband Stephen, both 44, won a two-year battle that pitted their small, Boulder-based card company, Blue Mountain Arts, against the giant of the business, Hallmark Cards...
...colossal audiences and soaring ad revenues, however, bred complacency. "The networks closed their eyes to reality," says Ralph Baruch, former president of Viacom International and now a senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies. "They didn't fully comprehend the extent of technological changes." Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family and now the owner of six independent TV stations, sees the networks' distress as retribution for their copycat programming. "If these guys were standing in a circle with razors at each other's throats," he asserts, "they could not be committing suicide more energetically...
...satisfied that they had taught the software pirates a lesson. Nobody knows precisely how much damage their little experiment caused, but everyone agrees that it was an impressive piece of work. "This virus is elegant," says John McAfee of the InterPath computer company, expressing grudging respect for its creator. "I don't admire what he did, but I admire the way he did it. He may be the best virus designer the world has ever seen...