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...processing companies are hubs for millions of payment records. It is the juiciest target for an individual who wants account numbers. It is a honeypot for identity thieves." CHRIS HOOFNAGLE, senior consul for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., on a security breach at a credit-card payment-processing company in Arizona. More than 40 million accounts may have been exposed to fraud...
...huge problem," says Lanning Bryer, a lawyer at the New York City firm Ladas & Perry, which specializes in intellectual-property cases. "The game is to keep everyone else off the golden apple for as long as possible." Or, as in the Pooh case, to keep them off the golden honeypot...
Behind the podium on risers were seats for the graduating class, about 100 teenage girls in pristine white dresses (bought specially for the occasion, with great anxiety for my sister and nuisance to her family). They buzzed about like bees waiting for a honeypot...
...third number, "At My Age," is particularly enjoyable. The duet between a fourteen year old girl (Hsu) preparing for her first date and a middle aged woman (Thompson) about to embark on her first blind date since her divorce is funny and touching. In the second act is "Honeypot," a hilarious satire of the ridiculous sexual innuendo prevalent in early blues. Harad beautifully belts out lines such as "Put your monkey wrench in my sugar bowl," while Salie, as the disapproving psychiatrist, glowers. Even if one scene fails to entertain, no skit last longer than four or five minutes...
...decades, Presidents have used the census as a patronage honeypot, dispensing part-time counting jobs to allies at the grass roots. Even Jimmy Carter, who championed civil service reform, signed a waiver in 1979 so that his followers could be hired. But George Bush has apparently missed the 1990 census gravy train...