Word: password
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...ability to check e-mail formed the crux of the back-and-forth over Lowell’s list. In order to access e-mail, houseSYSTEM must know a user’s Harvard password. The site asks for it on registration—and currently informs users supplying invalid passwords that the site will lack full functionality...
...soon to tell if phone blogging will be more than a passing fad, but the early buzz has prompted AT&T Wireless and Sprint PCS to offer password-protected online photo albums for up to $15 a month to customers with phone cams. Other services, such as Textamerica.com let people create public phone-cam blogs for free. Posting pictures is as easy as sending an e-mail. On some phone-cam blogs, you can also add a few lines of text or an audio clip and invite others to comment...
Another big question: What kind of threat is the free-Wi-Fi movement? In major cities, many home users are leaving their networks open--either as a public service or, in more cases, accidentally--meaning anyone can use those networks to surf freely without a password. The practice of looking for those networks--known as wardriving, in homage to Matthew Broderick's wardialing in the movie War Games--got a boost when the descendants of ham-radio enthusiasts figured out that you could pick up a much stronger signal by welding an empty Pringles can to your Wi-Fi card...
...When you've chosen your free tax filer and gone to an outside site, you can being filing. To work with a vendor site, you'll need to create a unique username and password, as this will function as your electronic signature on your return. The same username and password can be used in different years. Each site will ask for your personal information, your social security number and other relevant info. After that, you can begin the form, which in most cases consists of a number of easy-to-understand radio buttons and text boxes that make the cumbersome...
...guard the next day saying, "I do not subscribe to the theory that the attacker had an accomplice and I do not want to give any of our fine soldiers the impression that we don't trust them." He learned about the guard when he was challenged for a password while returning to his own tent, late in the evening. One officer jokingly asked Col. Hodges how he got past the guard without a password and received the reply, "I tried to overwhelm him with the sheer force of my personality. When that failed, he eventually saw the logic...