Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scrambling and unscrambling the data in a complex fashion. Each team offered cash to the first mathematician who could crack its code, figuring that the deciphering could not be done in much less than a million years. To the surprise of all concerned, however, the Stanford scheme sprang a leak this year, putting $100 in the pocket of a determined young Israeli theoretician and raising troublesome, and potentially costly, questions about whether computers can ever be made to keep their secrets...
Plugging the Leak...
These were the words that just kept passing through my mind during the last Harvard-Dartmouth game in Hanover. I was sitting in the stands, and it was raining so hard that my raincoat--one of those leak-proof, rubberized specials--had soaked through. My newish jeans were plastered to my legs, which by this time must have been Levi blue from the dye that was forming a nice pool at my feet. Ah yes, my feet. My feet, shriveled to nothingness, were floating inside my socks, which were floating inside my sneakers, which had water streaming...
...this month, all the world knows about this sultry young woman. Timing the "leak" perfectly with the birth of Prince William, future King of England, CBS let slip that it will air a feature film later this year entitled Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance: Shooting has begun on what will surely be a landmark in modern movie-making. The twentieth century fairy-tale-come-true, captured for all America in prime time, maybe on cable someday. And who will star as Diana, the shy kindergarten teacher-turned-princess and proud mother? None other than Catherine Oxenberg...
Damaging information can leak out of any part of a company, from the mail-room to the executive suite. The motive for some informants is money, while for others it may be a desire for revenge. "That former vice president can really zap you," says Industrial Espionage Expert Bequai. Computer programmers are particularly rich sources of secrets because they handle massive amounts of data. Salesmen also spread tidbits as they make their rounds, gossiping and exchanging news...