Word: password
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chui hoped that that would be the last of it. It was not. After the weekend he discovered that someone had made contact with the computer through a telephone hookup and introduced a new program: whenever a legitimate user typed in his password, the code name was immediately sent to the intruder. "It was panic," says Dr. Radhe Mohan, director of the computer service. "Someone was up to big mischief that could have conceivably caused harm...
...each other. Like the high priests of any new religion, these keepers of the computer faith like to rename familiar things (How else could a TV screen become a monitor?). They like even more to give new things names that are as mystifying to an outsider as the secret password of an esoteric cult. Thus the computer's two forms of "memory" are known as RAM and ROM. The temporary memory, RAM, meaning "random-access memory," can easily be changed; the permanent memory, ROM, meaning "read-only memory," cannot be modified...
...laughter and the jokes die, and he feels alone again. He says he has been a good father "in flashes," and admits that at times his children "almost had to say a password" when they saw him to find out whether they were considered friend or foe that...
...customers of New York's Chemical Bank, the tedious chore of checking their balances or paying their bills no longer means standing in line at the neighborhood branch office. Instead, they simply switch on their Atari home computers, telephone a special Chemical Bank number, punch in some secret password codes and numbers into their machines and conduct all their banking business from their living rooms...
...Diego, using the ARPANET network. Marc's access to ARPANET is as easy as pi. He dials the number of a local military-base computer, provided by a friend who works there, plugs his receiver into a $125 modem (a telephone computer hookup), and taps out a password on his $685 home terminal. A few seconds later Marc is into an ARPANET computer, 3,000 miles away on the M.I.T. campus. Once in, he can call up such files as "humor," "scifi lovers" and "info micro"-a collection of computer brain teasers. This free play, however, may soon stop...