Word: ebay
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush on cybersecurity issues. Also in the running are Frank Kramer, who was assistant defense secretary for international security affairs under President Bill Clinton, and Howard Schmidt, another adviser to Bush on cyberspace security and protection of critical infrastructure. Schmidt also has extensive private-sector experience, including stints with eBay and Microsoft, where he was chief security officer...
...what actually happened to American innovation during that period? We came up with America Online, Netscape, Amazon, Google, Blogger, Wikipedia, Craigslist, TiVo, Netflix, eBay, the iPod and iPhone, Xbox, Facebook and Twitter itself. Sure, we didn't build the Prius or the Wii, but if you measure global innovation in terms of actual lifestyle-changing hit products and not just grad students, the U.S. has been lapping the field for the past 20 years...
...become a tool of war. The attacks are designed to paralyze websites, financial networks and other computer systems by flooding them with data from outside computers. A 15-year-old Canadian with the handle "mafiaboy" launched the first documented DoS attack in 2000, against numerous e-commerce sites, including eBay and Amazon.com, shutting some down and wreaking havoc that cost an estimated $1.7 billion. In 2007, entities believed to have been associated with the Russian government or its allies launched a DoS attack against Estonia during a dispute sparked by the removal of a World War II-era Soviet soldier...
...following year, a 40-year-old National Archives intern stole 160 Civil War documents-including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death-and sold about half of them on eBay. Possible motivation? He told his psychiatrist he was angry the internship was unpaid...
...could be made on tickets, starting bidding levels preset for the buying audience, and offers to sell made less than 24 hours before the dance were among the signs that many students had calculated their sales to rake up the maximum profit. The e-mail list quickly became an eBay list...