Word: password
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what they perceived to be a history of insubordination, Alvin Frost's bosses in the District of Columbia municipal government tossed the Harvard-trained cash-management analyst out of his office and changed the locks last week. But Frost was prepared: he had changed the seven-letter computer password to the district's cash-management system, electronically locking financial officials out of key data. All he would say about the new password was that it concerned the Declaration of Independence...
...month someone gained access to Frost's computer data, extracted a letter he had written to Barry charging the city's top financial managers with "incompetence, mismanagement . . . intimidation and indifference," and leaked it to local newspapers. After Frost's electronic lockout, his superiors announced they had bypassed his new password. Insisting that was impossible, Frost declared that he would insert clues to his password in newspaper classified columns and award prizes for solutions...
...Rules just clutter up the game and confuse people," says Alex Trebek, the host and producer of Jeopardy! "People should be able to understand the show in the first half-hour, even if it's their first time watching." That may help explain why the same shows keep reappearing. Password has resurfaced as Super Password, and among the retreads planned for next fall are The New Hollywood Squares and We Love the Dating Game. Death is only a temporary state in game-show heaven. Dan Enright, producer of Tic Tac Dough and The Joker's Wild, plans to retire...
...fees that range from $5 to $15 a month, customers who apply for home banking receive floppy disks that enable them to link their personal computers via modem and telephone line to their bank's computer. After punching in a secret password, the home banker can display his current balances, confirm that deposits have been properly credited or call for an up-to-date listing of all the checks that have cleared. Ask a question about banking services, and the answer will be on the screen the next day. Bills from merchants who join an ever expanding roster provided...
With a relatively secure operating system, therefore, the next step, protection of passwords, is up to the user. Much of the security here, although exhaustively reviewed and debated by experts, is just common sense: "good" passwords (i.e. imaginative words that prowlers will have a difficult time guessing), frequent password changes, and constant monitoring of computer users. "The lay thing to implementing the systems," says Jeff Gibson director of Security at Digital Equipment Company. "If people don't change the passwords then if a computer manufacturer is making xyz's and every xyz has a password of 'hello' and someone knows...