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Early this year a bomb went off in a computer at the Los Angeles department of water and power. The device did not explode; it was a "logic bomb," a smidgen of spurious software coding that had been secretly inserted into the giant IBM machine. At a preassigned time, the logic bomb suddenly went off and maliciously froze the utility's internal files. Work came to a standstill until a team of experts, including the Los Angeles police department's newly formed computer crime unit, was able to uncover the subversive coding. The unknown criminal, who could face five years...
...Angeles water and power got off lightly. The logic bomb had not disrupted the intricate systems that control the flow of water and electricity to the service's 1.2 million customers. Says Lieut. Fred Reno, the officer in charge of the case: "A lot of customers in the city of Los Angeles could have been affected. That really would have been a disaster...
Lance Morrow's article "Smile When You Say That" [ESSAY, Oct. 28], describing how cowboy logic figured in the recent terrorist incident, was most accurate when it depicted Theodore Roosevelt as a good guy doing battle with bad guys. This image of frontier justice has been a long-standing and powerful one in the American consciousness. After all, when T.R. succeeded the assassinated William McKinley as President in 1901, anguished Republican Business Leader Mark Hanna remarked, "That damned cowboy is President of the United States!" William M. Wemple Fort Washington...
Despite their woes, U.S. semiconductor makers remain world leaders in many products. American firms hold a 64% share of the vital market for logic chips, or microprocessors, which carry out stored instructions. The Japanese, by contrast, have a 27% share. "For the time being, the logic-chip business is safe from foreign competition," says Stuart Johnson, who watches the semiconductor industry for the Manhattan firm of Wertheim & Co. "Logic chips are far more difficult than memories to copy and redesign." But U.S. manufacturers may soon face tougher Japanese competition in that market as well. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Cristina...
When it was first attempted nearly 20 years ago, the operation was hailed as a marvel of technical virtuosity and medical logic. Cerebral bypass surgery was designed to circumvent one of the most common causes of strokes: a blockage in one of the arteries that carry blood to the brain. To reroute blood around a blocked vessel, the surgeon uses a nearby, less vital artery to build a bypass road. Taking this detour, blood continues to flow to the brain, and the risk of a stroke's occurring is presumably lessened...