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...loyalty oaths or not, the political and social climate at the time seems to have stifled any potential engagement—students simply had other priorities.“There was not a great deal of [political] activity at the time of my graduation,” said John F. Dobbyn ’59, a law professor at Vanderbilt.OUTRAGE AT THE TOPOpposition to administering loyalty oaths to students centered at the highest levels of the University and focused on eliminating the loyalty affidavit—the most legally binding part of the oaths—but rarely trickled down...
...sought to exploit it. Even before the advent of the personal computer, "phone phreaks" manipulated computerized phone systems to make free long-distance calls. (Reportedly among them, by many accounts: future computer pioneers Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, who would go on to found Apple Computer.) One infamous phreak, John Draper, became known as Captain Crunch after discovering in 1972 that he could fool AT&T's network with the tone from a plastic whistle distributed with the breakfast cereal. Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick became a top target for the FBI for breaking into academic and corporate computer systems...
...Office the role will include. The government's past efforts to protect computer systems have been bogged down in bureaucratic turf battles, but analysts hope the President's attention will mark a new era in digital security - before it's too late. As former Air Force computer-crime fighter John Wheeler told the Los Angeles Times, "We want to avoid a cyber-Pearl Harbor...
...original version of this story misstated that Paul Hill killed David Gunn. Gunn was killed by Michael Griffin. Hill murdered another doctor, John Britton, in Pensacola...
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