Word: downloading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sophisticated security barriers to steal information from companies and universities. But CIA officials believe their own computer system and the new Intelink are practically invulnerable to invasion by outsiders. There will always be the threat of government officials with security clearance who decide to betray their country and download intelligence files. Yet terminals inside Langley are routinely audited for suspicious activity, such as an unusual number of log-ins after hours or repeated failures to have a password accepted, usually symptomatic of a hacker testing out a host of computer-generated passwords. During their first polygraph, job applicants...
...enabling anyone with a home computer to encode messages so effectively that even the National Security Agency's supercomputers may not be able to read them. One favorite is Boulder, Colorado, programmer Phil Zimmerman's PGP, for Pretty Good Privacy, free to anyone in the U.S. who wants to download it from the Internet or from non-Internet-connected BBSs that carry...
...live band onstage -- jacked in from a studio in Prague -- isn't very good, so I duck into the back room where there are virtual racks full of tapes you can sample, listening to a few seconds from each song. If you like it, you can download the whole album, with optional interactive liner notes, videos and sheet music...
...networks for nearly 10 years. Strictly as a professional, of course. I've seen things that would make William Burroughs blush and send Catharine MacKinnon into cardiac arrest. I've had a chance to order whips and chains by the gross, drop in on group sex and download more explicit pictures than are displayed in a decade's worth of Hustler. In one day, I've read more intimate confessions than are found in a year's worth of Penthouse letters. All this as an objective journalist, mind you. I report on cybersex, but I don't give...
There are endless text files describing sex with strangers and strange sex. There are photos and films and sounds (Girl in Cage, Women in Wet Clothes) to download that are usually found behind the curtain in the back of mom-and-pop video stores. There are personal ads of the ilk published in the back of swingers' magazines: WANTED TOPLESS MAID CLEVELAND AREA. One can order sex toys of the inflatable and battery-driven varieties, available via 800 numbers and direct mail. There are costumes (men's black leather harness with silver studs) and condoms, leather and rubber goods...