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...code was changed by TRW as soon as it learned of the security breach, and it was not known how much damage, if any, had been done by unauthorized use of credit information. The potential was immense. Using the password, plus other easily available information, a person could display anyone's credit history to obtain credit-card numbers. Those could be used to order merchandise by mail...
...Information Services in Orange, Calif., the largest credit-reporting agency in the U.S., keeps credit histories of some 90 million Americans. Access to its files is gained with a computer password, actually a number code. Last week TRW officials confirmed that an account password had been filched from one of its creditor subscribers, a West Coast Sears store. It was then posted on so-called electronic bulletin boards, which almost any computer enthusiast can hook into through phone lines...
After breaking into the UCLA computer system, Austin was able to find the password to the "Advanced Research projects Agency Network" which holds accounts only for authorized UCLA scientists doing research for government agencies, including the Defence Department, he added...
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...