Word: paranoias
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...some extent this applies to Prabhakaran himself. The paranoia of a man who for 12 years has secreted himself away from the world, building up a cult of godlike reverence that prevents Tigers from even referring to him by name, cannot be overstated. He emerged from hiding last week dressed in a suit that could only be described as North Korean chic, flanked by a trio of mustachioed goons in sunglasses and a host of cameramen whose apparent task was to record the faces and questions of every reporter. Whatever the intended message, the impression was clear: as a politician...
...checklist mentality," says Senser, and because Hanssen didn't fit the standard "booze-broads-bills" profile of an espionage suspect, none of his colleagues or supervisors pieced together the wildly disparate parts of his personality. He was racking up computer security violations, experiencing fits of anger and paranoia, spending more than he made and proselytizing even as he was carrying on a relationship with a stripper and posting lurid fantasies in Internet sex chat rooms. The new unit, says Senser, will try to figure out "what makes the person tick - why these things are happening." Had anyone really seen Hanssen...
During the Civil War, Lincoln's paranoia regarding the Scots was much discussed among Washington insiders...
...acquiring competitors' proprietary information and more on keeping their competitors out of their own. Sept. 11 may not have been a failure of corporate intelligence, but its impact has rippled throughout the business world. "People have begun to recognize that our trust needs to be balanced with some healthy paranoia. We have seen that what is possible is more horrific than we could have imagined," says Naomi Fine, president and CEO of PRO-TEC DATA, a leader in the field of information security. "We see now the potential is that everything can be lost. Literally, everything is at stake...
...language newspaper, spy cameras are a hit with consumers in Guangdong province, where spouses are tracking their mates and store owners watch out for shoplifters. After stumbling upon a Tokyo-based pornographic website showing photos of female passengers on Taipei subway trains, a Taipei city councilor recently fueled public paranoia by announcing that the transit system had been infiltrated by Japanese criminals carrying cameras disguised as briefcases...