Word: networks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...German television network reported that authorities believe the West German hackers were recruited by the Soviet KGB in 1985 and "were paid with cash and drugs and were later forced to provide the codes and passwords to the Soviets...
...entice the hackers to spend more time on the network, Stoll created a Trojan Horse of his own called "SDI Net," which documented fictitious military information. The hackers took the bait and spent more than two hours reading the material...
...Barbouti's IBI had set up a network of offices stretching from Europe to Asia. In West Germany, where export-license rules have been hopelessly lax (but now, belatedly, are undergoing revision), he signed up Imhausen-Chemie as chief subcontractor for the project. Intelligence officials say Barbouti's newly opened offices in Hong Kong helped arrange a complex scheme by which material was sent to Imhausen's representative in Hong Kong and transshipped to Rabta. In this way, they explain, Barbouti managed to avoid arousing suspicions about Gaddafi's real intent...
...hardly a promising subject for network entertainment. But two shows, Tour of Duty and China Beach, are tackling the issues, if not the politics...
...being a pretty depressing human endeavor, has never been a favorite subject for network entertainment. The Viet Nam War, being pretty depressing even as wars go, would seem to be nearly untouchable. Not only was there too much R-rated action (drug abuse, massacres of civilians) but the story had an unhappy ending. Such recent movies as Platoon and Full Metal Jacket could immerse their audience in the muck and moral quicksand for a couple of hours and then let go. But TV series must keep viewers coming back week after week, adhering to standards of "family entertainment" along...