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...kind of pattern that security experts point to as evidence of cyberterror attacks. "This guy was organized and he was looking for specific material," says Jordan, who also blames the "absurd insecurity" of the U.S.'s cyber-defenses. "McKinnon was mainly using the basic technique of an automatic dialer that scans loads of machines until it finds ones that either have their administrator password still set to default or were just left open...
...They say you should never mix business with pleasure. So then explain to me how a putt-putt golf company operates.” —Nayeli E. Rodriguez is a sophomore in Currier House and the incoming Features editor. She aspires to a career as a drunk dialer...
Telemarketing has been around almost as long as the telephone, but it didn't take off until the 1980s brought a decline in long-distance prices, along with a powerful technology called the automatic dialer. This device can call hundreds of homes at the same time and then immediately route the unwitting customer to a live telemarketer. When you answer your phone at home and hear nothing but light static, it's often because an automatic dialer has reached you but no agent was free to take the call. An unlisted number used to provide protection, until digital technology allowed...
...cases are far from identical. Gore's calls are well documented, and Gore has admitted to connecting with donors on 46 occasions. Not so with Clinton. While investigators have D.N.C. "call sheets" urging Clinton to press fat cats for cash, they have yet to prove the First Dialer actually picked up the phone--and if he did, whether he ever got around to soliciting any money. If it was no more than good-ole-boy small talk, Reno may say there is no reason to pursue the matter further...
Although clearly loved by his family, he has finally had enough of such a narrowed life, saying he and those who care for him have become physical and psychological slaves to his quadriplegia. He has used his mechanic's skills to devise a mouth-operated phone dialer and a table on which he can mouth- write letters, but the smallest of pleasures beyond those require outside help. For the occasional cigarette he enjoys, lighting, ash flicking and stubbing out must be done by someone else...