Word: satanizing
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...found myself chanting "Jose, Jose," I realized that it is the uniform, not the player inside, to which I have a loyalty. After all, Jose Canseco was the embodiment of Satan when he crushed the Sox in the playoffs in 1988 and 1990. This explains how my grandmother, a diehard fan who listened to almost every Red Sox game in the Morgan Magic season, couldn't tell the difference between Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens...
...bears mentioning. And yet, this simple logic is lost on a good deal of Americans, to say nothing of Americans, journalists. In movies, on television and in magazines, 'Arab' and `Muslim' are often buzz words for gun-wielding, grenade tossing, Qu'rantoting fanatics bent on destroying the imperialist, materialist Satan that is the United States. When was the last time you saw an Arab `good guy' on your television screen...
...wave of satanic attacks never materialized -- or at least they hadn't at week's end. It may be that most computer hackers don't own the industrial-strength unix machines needed to run the program. But it seems more likely that SATAN is actually doing the job it was designed to do. In fact, many security experts are now praising the program -- and the publicity that surrounded it-as just the thing to shore up the Internet...
...world is a better place with SATAN out there," says Bill Cheswick, a computer scientist at AT&T's Bell Laboratories and co-author of Firewalls and Internet Security. The Internet has been growing so rapidly, says Cheswick, that it is filled with novice administrators running powerful computer networks who don't have any idea how vulnerable their systems are. "The bad guys already have these tools," says Cheswick. "It's a lot harder for the good guys to get them...
That's little solace for Farmer, who until last month was employed as a security specialist at Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, California. In March, when his bosses learned that he intended to unleash SATAN into the world, they gave him an ultimatum: publish if you want to perish. He published. Now he's on the market, looking...