Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johan Helsingius' personal computer may be the most loathed machine in cyberspace. Cranks routinely E-mail bomb it, trying to level the IBM clone with millions of pages of gibberish. Hot-headed hackers dispatch bit-eating "worm" programs to Helsinki to search for and destroy the computer's precious electronic cargo. A few vengeful folks have even threatened Helsingius himself, for what would the machine be without...
...They care big-time,'' Codex says. ``They're going to destroy Simoleons. And they're going to step all over your family in the process...
...Because if they don't destroy E-money,'' Codex says, ``E-money will destroy them...
...their Simoleons for comic books and baseball cards and claim it's safer. They will intentionally go bankrupt and blame it on you. They will show up in twos and threes on tawdry talk shows to report mysterious disappearances of their Simoleons during Metaverse transactions. They will, in short, destroy the image -- and the business -- of your client. The result: victory for the government, which hates and fears private currencies. And bankruptcy...
...traveling companion was not so lucky. Ahmad Ajaj, a Palestinian, was arrested when he tried to enter the country with a bogus Swedish passport and bombmaking books in his luggage. According to the federal prosecutors, Ajaj was ``carrying formulae regarding how to destroy buildings, bridges and other properties, and videotapes which called for war on the United States and portrayed scenes of explosions, including depictions of American facilities being bombed.'' Yousef, standing at the next counter, remained impassive as Ajaj was led away. The government now says Yousef's fingerprints were found on Ajaj's bomb manuals...