Word: password
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help them get in touch with their feelings. The National Intelligence Book Center, which only the most persistent sleuth can find (in an appropriately nondescript Washington building), confines itself to publications on spies and spying; the customers, insists director Elizabeth Bancroft, are mostly professional spooks, who practically need a password to get in and who are asked to leave their parcels -- including, presumably, minicameras -- in lockers that sport the flags of different countries...
Experts say that at least one in 20 passwords can be guessed quite easily because users choose as their password either their name, the name of a friend, their home city, or other computer-related terms. Morris exploited this fact and programmed his virus to request information about users from the computer and use that information to try to guess their passwords. Only one password on each system needed be discovered to break through the next level of computer security...
When the virus found a working password, it logged itself into the machine masquerading as that user, placed a copy of the entire virus in the computer's storage and ran it, fully infecting the target machine...
...daydreamed of. At first you may snap to suspicious attention when, say, a cartoon stork pedals a real bicycle, or Jessica diddles a human's necktie. But the film encourages you to vacation in its ingenuity. Drop by the Ink and Paint Club, Toontown's toniest dive, where the password is "Walt sent me," penguin waiters patrol in tuxedos, and Daffy and Donald Duck, together for the first time, perform a piano duet. Meet old friends like Mickey and Bugs, Tweety and Betty Boop, and new ones, like the '80s version of Snow White's dwarfs: Greasy, Wheezy, Smart...
...current Rockwell engineer also told TIME that the company last June failed to place a protective password on at least one shipment of shuttle software tapes. That meant that almost anyone at the company with computer access could call up the tapes, punch in changes at will and leave no record of who had made the alteration or precisely what had been done. In fact, she produced a record showing that one such anonymous change actually had been made...