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Case began his professional life as cannon fodder at Procter & Gamble, an assistant brand manager working on products such as Abound!, a failed, wipe-on hair cleanser. Case couldn't hack the glacial pace at P&G. So in 1983, after an introduction from brother Dan, he jumped to a start-up called Control Video Corp., which was perfecting the "can't lose" idea of shilling TV-top boxes that would download and play video games over telephone lines. The idea bombed. But a bit of financial legerdemain turned the firm into Quantum Computer Services, which ran an online network...
...quickly become a measuring stick for gauging the extent to which countries embrace the concept of free speech on the Internet. If a country allows Web sites originating from servers within its borders to install strong encryption software, its government is much less likely to be able to hack into personal and/or company files to gather evidence of illegal activities or alter the information therein. Though such a scenario might sound far-fetched, many regimes worldwide do have government agencies who regularly "break and enter" Web sites suspected of distributing information that has been labeled "subversive...
Moscow-born, the son of a carpenter, and a mechanical engineer by training, Luzhkov rose through the unfashionable side of the Soviet hierarchy. He was an executive in the Soviet chemical industry, not a party bureaucrat. Nevertheless, he is anything but a dry party hack. He has a fascination with Catherine the Great, for instance, and he spends his spare time raising bees at his dacha outside Moscow...
...hear cybercops sounding the alarm: Cybercrime is reaching a critical state and doomsday is upon us." It's tough to get worked into a frenzy, adds Quittner, when there's no evidence that any of these claims is true. "I haven't heard of a single major cybercrime, hack or hijacking - ever." Of course, the cybercops have to justify their cyber-beat...
...Federation of State High School Associations, it's not clear if there have ever been four on a varsity team. And it wasn't as if the four Lincoln girls got together to make a statement. Mora and Chaparro went into it together, curious to see if they could hack it. But Cruz and Macias decided independently to do the unexpected. "It's my senior year," Cruz says. "I wanted to try as many things as I could, because it's my last chance...