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Computer crimes are hardly new. In California prosecutors have been pursuing high-tech crime in Silicon Valley for a couple of decades. But the focus and nature of the crimes have changed dramatically. When the Department of Justice set up a computer-crimes unit in September 1991, it was intended to cope primarily with threats to computer security posed by hackers, toll-fraud artists and electronic intruders. But the new crimes, says Jim Thomas, a criminology professor at Northern Illinois University, ``aren't simply the esoteric type they were five years ago.'' They are ``computer crimes,'' he adds, ``only...
...field, and the number is growing. Senior officials from the agency's National Collections Branch have been quietly approaching businesses doing overseas work to ask if they will provide covers for CIA case officers. Energy companies, import-export firms, multinational concerns, banks with foreign branches and high-tech corporations are among those being approached. Usually the company president and perhaps another senior officer, such as the general counsel, are the only ones who know of the arrangement. ``The CEOs do it out of a sense of patriotism,'' says former deputy CIA Director Bobby Inman...
...understandably skittish about having it blown. Time contacted half a dozen Fortune 500 firms to ask if they accepted NOC officers. Most either refused to comment or said they do not participate. ``There's a real serious concern about the risk of exposure,'' said an executive for a high-tech company that once accepted NOC officers but no longer does...
...choreography and coaching emphasize virtuosity in what might be called a can-you-top-this derby. Violette Verdy, an elegant Paris Opara ballerina who came to City Ballet in the '50s and is now a teaching associate, ponders the differences between her own, gentler dance culture and the harder, high-tech world in which this generation must work. "We live now under so many pressures. This is a time of technique. Speed becomes violence; energy becomes stridency...
Industry executives who not long ago stubbornly fought the federal imposition of such now widely accepted technical items as seat belts, air bags and emission controls are taking the lead in pushing high-tech innovation. The auto industry and its suppliers are spending $24 billion a year between them in advanced engineering and electronic research-more than a quarter of the nation's entire annual $90 billion research-and-development expenditures...