Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leaving aside that fact that I can't know who has "finger"ed or "last"ed me and thus have no basis for complaint, the idea that privacy should be protected only when someone feels in personal danger is rubbish. They also remarked that to disable the "last" command, or the "finger | grep " loophole would "significantly reduce the functionality of the computer systems". This is also rubbish, again as any CS50 graduate can tell you: a few keystrokes will remove the last command from/usr/bin or make is accessible only to the administration...
...attention to a different story: "this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for President." She shone the light on Starr--his agenda, his henchmen, his ideological gene pool--and suggested that this was the real story, the real danger, rather than anything her husband might have done...
...John Meriwether, a former vice chairman of Salomon Brothers, and its partners included Nobel laureate economists Myron Scholes and Robert Merton, whose market models helped give Long Term Capital an aura of near infallibility. Until September, that is, when word leaked that the firm was in danger of suffering losses so catastrophic they could send the already troubled world financial system into a tailspin. A $3.6 billion rescue package was cobbled together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a consortium of 14 U.S. and foreign lenders...
...raids never uncovered a list of operatives in the cell but did rattle many of the members. One typed on el Hage's computer a "security report" to a senior bin Laden aide complaining that "the cell is at 100% danger" because of hostile intelligence agencies. FBI agents believe the report's author was Abdullah Mohammed Fazul, whom the CIA at the time had identified only as a distant associate of el Hage's. He was later accused of being a key planner of the embassy bombings the next year. El Hage moved with his family to Texas, where...
...recipients than for, say, hearts or kidneys. Because the immune system comes from the marrow, a transplant of that reddish pulp is, in effect, an immune-system transplant. There's the usual possibility that the body may reject the graft as "foreign." Then there's the almost surreal danger that the transplanted immune system will attack and kill its host...