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...brick Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on Manhattan's Upper East Side is an example of advanced medical technology. Every year more than 10,000 patients, ranging from infants with leukemia to statesmen with brain tumors, are admitted to this world-renowned research hospital, where they are analyzed, probed and treated by the most sophisticated high-tech equipment available. There are giant X-ray scanners, imaging devices and accelerators for beaming particles on diseased tissues, many operating under computer control...
...Sloan-Kettering officials called the New York City police, the FBI and New York Telephone security, which tapped the phone lines connected to the machine. Then Chui tried to reach the intruders by leaving messages in their computer terminals. "You have done some harm to the system," read one plea. "Please call us and help us repair the damage." About an hour after the message went out, someone called back. "He said he was sorry," recalls Chui. "But when we asked how he got into the system he refused to answer...
...Sloan-Kettering caper and this summer's hit movie WarGames-the story of a young computer buff who nearly sets off a nuclear war when he accidentally gets into one of the Defense Department's most sensitive machines-have focused attention on a serious question: How to safeguard information stored inside computers? The potential for fraud is awesome. The American banking system alone moves more than $400 billion between computers every day. Corporate data banks hold consumer records and business plans worth untold billions. Military computers contain secrets that, if stolen, could threaten U.S. security. Many of these...
...tampering or theft of computer data in the U.S. "There is a whole epidemic of malicious system hacking going on," says Donn Parker, computer crime specialist at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif. Concurs Ron Zeitz, a spokesman for GTE Telenet, the computer network used to get into the Sloan-Kettering system: "It's like the skyjacking phenomenon. People are going to try what other people are getting away with...
What IBM seeks, above all, is products that sell. "They have tried to understand what the customer wants," says Stuart Madnick, a professor of management-information systems at M.I.T.'s Sloan School. "Often the customer didn't need or want the more advanced technology that others have produced. In many companies the technology has grown faster than the market can absorb...