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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...
...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...
...list reads like a disjointed combination of Password and Jeopardy: The Yard, The Quad, The Quadrangle, The Green, The Diag, Old Campus. What is, a big open space where students congregate...
...does not have to be a whiz kid to uncover secrets hidden in a computer. Many large office systems have a hierarchy of password privileges that gives supervisors access to the files of subordinates and systems operators access to everything. At the San Francisco Examiner, which like most modern newspapers is highly computerized, employees have to be reminded from time to time that "cruising the baskets" (reading the private files) of their co- workers is a serious breach of privacy...