Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Mr. K. does at the giant non-profit company, Citizens Energy Corporation, that doubles as his political springboard. As for the Pentagon, he says waste should be eliminated. His analysis stops there, and we duly not that anti-waste isn't much more of a platform than anti-crime...
Adopting the Republican platform forwarded by President Reagan, Abt said that he would try to cut back on taxes, eliminate government waste, strengthen the national defense and stop crime...
These are among the cases brought to light in a new study released last week by the National Center for Computer Crime Data, a Los Angeles research firm. The results of the survey, the first comprehensive study of people who have been prosecuted under computer-crime laws, suggest that although teenagers like the members of Milwaukee's widely heralded "414" gang are a real annoyance, the most serious losses are caused by electronic miscreants who are a good deal older and not half so clever. "Generally, these are unsophisticated crimes," says the center's director, Jay BloomBecker. "The myth that...
Most misdeeds boiled down to what Donn Parker, a computer-crime watcher at SRI International, calls "data diddling"--entering false numbers at a keyboard. To pay for his wife's drug purchases, for example, a programmer at a savings and loan company in Los Angeles transferred $5,000 into his personal account and tried to cover up the switch with phony debit and credit transactions. The error was picked up in a routine bank audit. Among the 15 programmers and ten students nabbed, the offenses committed most often were thefts of software and telecommunications services. The rest of the crimes...
...case gleaned from the prosecutors' files involved one of their own. Last August, Jefferson County (Colo.) District Attorney Nolan Brown was convicted of computer crime, forgery and abuse of public records in a ticket- fixing case. Hoping to reduce his automobile-insurance rates, Brown had asked a motor vehicle bureau employee to delete a pair of speeding tickets from the department's computer system. He was sentenced to five days in jail, fined $2,000, placed on four years' probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service. He also resigned. Thus Brown lost a $73,000-a-year...