Word: mischiefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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State and federal officials are trying to stem a rising tide of computer mischief. But they are finding it hard to make their punishments fit the crimes. Many of the best-publicized pranks have been committed by minors who are protected from the full force of the law. Moreover, the laws are often inadequate to deal with the complexities of the new technology. In March two members of Milwaukee's 414 Gang of computer whiz kids, which last summer broke into computers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor...
Some observers fear that youthful computer enthusiasts, discovering that their pranks are largely beyond the reach of existing laws, may be graduating from mischief to misfeasance. Ronald Austin, 20, a U.C.L.A. student who told the press last year that he had cracked a Defense Department computer network, was arraigned in Los Angeles last month. Caught with $1,600 worth of illegally ordered airline tickets stashed under a rug, he is being charged under California's new laws with twelve counts of maliciously accessing a computer and one count of concealing stolen goods. Maximum sentence: nearly eight years...
...chuckling at her. Her scenes with Piers Peverill, head boy at her uncles's boarding school, are delightful ("you were very good at kissing. Fox, but I really want to have it off with you as soon as possible"): Peverill, a charmer who gets away with every kind of mischief, neatly complements Tibba's seriousness...
...morning of an Administration is the best time to send signals. Our signal to the Soviets had to be a plain warning that their time of unresisted adventuring in the Third World was over, and that America's capacity to tolerate the mischief of Moscow's proxies, Cuba and Libya, had been exceeded. Our signal to other nations must be equally simple and believable: once again, a relationship with the U.S. would bring dividends, not just risks...
Soon Reagan called. In fact, he was able to explain the misunderstanding. He regarded the new arrangement as a mere housekeeping detail, a formality. Lack of communication, aggravated by staff mischief, was the root problem. I was convinced that Ed Meese had been as misled as the President. The trouble lay elsewhere in the President's staff...