Word: modems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course was taught using an "electronicblack-board," according to the 1987-88 ExtensionSchool course guide. Students at Mt. Holyokeneeded only an IBM-compatible personal computerand modem...
...center is the Clipper Chip, a semiconductor device that the NSA developed and wants installed in every telephone, computer modem and fax machine. The chip combines a powerful encryption algorithm with a "back door" -- the cryptographic equivalent of the master key that opens schoolchildren's padlocks when they forget their combinations. A "secure" phone equipped with the chip could, with proper authorization, be cracked by the government. Law-enforcement agencies say they need this capability to keep tabs on drug runners, terrorists and spies. Critics denounce the Clipper -- and a bill before Congress that would require phone companies to make...
...Clipper technology, and by vigilantly enforcing restrictions against overseas sales of competing encryption systems, the government is trying to make it difficult for any alternative schemes to become widespread. If Clipper manages to establish itself as a market standard -- if, for example, it is built into almost every telephone, modem and fax machine sold -- people who buy a nonstandard system might find themselves with an untappable phone but no one to call...
...home and plant a device in the computer that would broadcast every keystroke. A more efficient method would have been to plant a bug enabling them to turn on the computer from another location, call up the internally stored files and transmit them by either radio or telephone modem to the FBI's waiting machines; the computer and modem would have been turned off by a remote signal. While in his house, the FBI might also have copied the diskettes he had on hand. And, surveillance experts say, they could have done all this without the suspect's ever knowing...
...could empirically prove that there is such a thing as a free lunch. Nowadays I hardly ever think about the credit I could get by attending Frequent Flyer support groups around the globe -- or the five miles I could earn by transmitting this article to the office on my modem. Mostly I'm to be found saying, "Come on. It's easy, it's free, and you can earn free tickets. They say this guy Faust never paid for a ticket in his life...