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...computer programmer with a gold ring in his eyebrow, a curly shock of orange hair and a tendency to tug on the beard of authority. Last Wednesday, on the day that Farmer turned 33, he gave a gift to the computer world: a fiendish little software device called SATAN...
...judging by its advance press, the most dreaded computer program since the Michelangelo virus. SATAN, which is an acronym for Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks, was designed by Farmer and a fellow programmer to help network administrators scan their computers for the technological equivalent of an unlocked back door -- a security hole that could be exploited by unauthorized users looking for a way to break in. By locating the cracks in their computer systems, administrators could patch them before they sprang leaks...
...SATAN certainly landed with a crash. Within minutes of its release, traffic started to pile up on the dozen or so computers around the world that Farmer had authorized as SATAN release sites. "Everyone was grabbing SATAN at once," says John Fisher, a computer-security specialist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of several sites that became overloaded in the crush. Two days after satan was unleashed, tens of thousands of copies had been downloaded...
Readers of the New York Times could be forgiven for thinking that California's economy is in free fall, that illegal immigrants to the state are more often harassed than employed, and that our police chief takes orders from Satan and not Mayor Richard Riordan...
...World Trade Center. Four months later, nine Islamists were arrested on charges of conspiring to blow up such landmarks as the U.N. and the Lincoln Tunnel. In both cases, the motivation was essentially religious and without any discernible goal: they were simply attacks on the U.S., the Great Satan, in the name of Allah...