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French banks and credit-card issuers plan to switch completely to smart cards by 1988. In the U.S., MasterCard will launch the first smart-card experiment this fall by giving out about 100,000 of them in Columbia, Md., and Palm Beach, Fla. If that pilot program goes well, MasterCard may begin national distribution as early...
...times. It was more than a little strange." After Barbara Walker's tip, the FBI secured court permits to tap Walker's telephones. On May 19, after hearing him talk about a special trip to Charlotte, N.C., agents watched his Chevrolet Astro van head north toward Potomac, Md., instead. According to trailing agents, Walker drove evasively, checking to see if he was being followed. He did in fact shake his pursuers for nearly three hours, but they luckily ran across him near Poolesville, Md. On a lonely country road, the agents saw him park near a tree posted with...
...gadgetry atop Soviet consulates and in offices. Sophisticated laser devices can eavesdrop on conversation in a room by picking up the vibrations from the windowpane. The most insecure place to store information is probably a computer. A study by the Department of Defense Computer Security Center in Fort Meade, Md., concluded that only 30 out of about 17,000 DOD computers are even minimally secure against intrusion by clever hackers. Though no one has ever been caught doing it, the mere thought of Soviet intelligence plugging into Defense Department computers, particularly the ones that command the American nuclear arsenal...
...income family of four in Gaithersburg, Md., with total income of $60,000. They pay $4,535 in state and local taxes, take a $960 tax credit for child-care costs and have interest deductions of $15,000 on a mortgage, a car loan and an old college loan. The group health insurance provided by their employers would add $300 to their taxable income under Reagan's proposal...
...agents acting on a tip, reportedly from Walker's former wife, were tailing him last Sunday near Poolesville, Md., some 20 miles northwest of Washington, when he stopped his car to toss a bag of trash beside a tree. Mixed with the rubbish were more than 120 classified documents dealing with the movements of Soviet ships in the Mediterranean. When the agents arrested Walker early the next morning, the FBI said, he was carrying a map of clandestine drop points in the Washington area, places where a spy could leave documents to be retrieved by a contact. One of those...