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What can be done to stop the sabotage? The Pentagon, which spends $50 million a year on computer-safeguard research alone, protects its systems from hackers by transmitting classified data on private telephone lines. These are usually encased in metal tubes and filled with high-pressure gas. A break in the tube resulting from an unauthorized tap causes a telltale loss of pressure. Furthermore, all classified files are in codes that are changed daily, even hourly for acutely sensitive information...
...frame. Now the 29-year-old systems analyst no longer smokes, and his scale registers 170 lbs. Though he had intended to stop smoking and lose weight, Benda got started with the help of an extra incentive: a company-sponsored program that rewards employees for taking steps to safeguard health. By attending smoking or stress workshops, exercising for at least 20 minutes, keeping their weight down, wearing seat belts while driving, or installing smoke detectors at home, employees of the New Jersey consumer health-care giant can earn "Live-for-Life dollars," good for such items as clocks, fire extinguishers...
Once a viable safeguard for library books, this antiquated search is now an ineffective and unnecessary hassle. Even the most zealous and thorough guards cannot catch everything—all one would really have to do is place a book underneath a few notebooks to get away with their treacherous book-stealing scheme. It’s such a shame. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we had the space-age technology to automate the check and detect the exit of hidden library materials not yet checked...
...research program." One way to test the system thoroughly, he says, may be through computer simulations of a full-scale nuclear war--a goal he thinks can eventually be achieved. Brockway Mac-Millan, a retired vice president at Bell Laboratories who directed the development of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile software system in the early 1970s, agrees. "Given the proper tools and enough time," he says, "I think the software problems can be solved." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
...limit their appetite for the E.U. market or they will bear the heavy responsibility of further factory closures, rising unemployment and the resultant impact on tax and social security revenues," says Euratex President Filiep Libeert, who is urging the European Commission to limit Chinese exports by invoking a "safeguard clause." The E.U. is allowed to take such action under world trade rules if it deems that markets have become disorderly...