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...each student will receive an individual account, complete with password, on which to charge telephone calls from any University phone. Customers can check on the amount charged to their account at any time...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: University Introduces New Telephone System | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

...hours with hundreds of other first-year and transfer students just to practice on a computer. Then, I spent an hour trying to get onto the system only to find out, with the aid of the computer center's one assistant, that I didn't even know my password. That meant more waiting outside the QRR office, and then more waiting to get back on the computer. The only things I learned were that there are 466 tiles on the basement floor and that I was lucky the Science Center is open all night...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Quite Ridiculous Requirement | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...Seriously?...You know, I come from Boston, and my bank card password is phoenix...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: PHOENIX | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rattling | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Gregory R. Galperin, | Title: Computer `Virus' Infects Nation With Built-In Wile | 11/12/1988 | See Source »

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