Word: pilferer
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...times and make sure to utilize the peep-hole when there is an unexpected knock at the door. After your next trek to see him in the wilds of a liberal arts school in Maine or the frat-heaven of your state university, make sure to conveniently pilfer a few articles of clothing and especially a well broken-in hat. Go to bed every night wrapped in the comfort of his Cape Cod Community College sweatshirt with the faint and wafting scent of his cologne...
...Eighties chirp in with a chorus of "Me, me, me!" My Lord, what a ruckus. All this Retro can give a girl a headache. But before you get nostalgic about the future, remember that every morning you have the potential to broadcast something. No matter which decade you pilfer, you are announcing "I am of the now." You are playing a cosmic game of Whack-a-Mole...
...troops want to get the trucks into Bosnian-government areas, they must deal with the triumphant Serbs. Since the blue helmets are not strong enough to fight their way past roadblocks, they end up cajoling the Serbs, obeying their rules and allowing them to search through -- and pilfer from -- the aid shipments. Rose insists, however, that his role is neutral, not to "intervene on one side." If NATO or anyone else chooses to go to war with the Serbs, his lightly armed U.N. troops will leave immediately...
What makes the CIA different from all other analytical agencies in Washington is that it steals secrets from other countries. It snatches them up with photographic and eavesdropping satellites and pays foreign agents to pilfer them from their own governments. That is a service the State Department or Treasury cannot provide and would not even like to try. So the CIA must bring some of the tools it honed on the Soviet Union to bear on new problems and places...
...hacker who went to extremes, a cyberpunk who surfed right off the edge. Authorities say he was just one of many bandits stalking the electronic highways. In recent years, individual outlaws and entire "gangs" have broken / into computers all over the U.S., using their wits and wiles to pilfer and destroy data...