Word: sniffer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around Snipers Alley, a long stretch of road known for its wartime shootouts that the Pope will travel on his way from the airport Saturday afternoon. While Bosnian authorities will take responsibility for the Pope's daily security, NATO-led peacekeeping forces have dispatched anti-sniper teams and explosive-sniffer dogs to the city and set up a joint emergency center with police. The ultimate test of these security precautions comes on Sunday when the Pope, speaking in Serbo-Croatian, will address as many as 60,000 Catholic pilgrims at a mass in Kosevo Stadium. Many of the pilgrims traveling...
...Internet address of a trusted or "friendly" machine. It's much easier to exploit security holes from inside a system than from outside; the trick is to gain "root" status, the top-level access that the computer's administrator enjoys. With root status, a hacker could install a password sniffer or bogus software, like a "back door"-a secret return path into the machine. Mitnick was able to break into Shimomura's Fort Knox-like computer using a spoof...
...Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama--even from members of his own Socialist Party. Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U.N. and the World Health Organization poured in, but some were subjectedto endless bureaucratic wrangling. Examples: foreign doctors were rebuffed at first because they did not have Japanese licenses; Swiss sniffer dogs were threatened with quarantine by the Agriculture Ministry. Conditions in the stricken port city, however, are improving, with 18,600 emergency housing units under way, thousands of workmen busily laying new telephone and electric cables and, most cheering of all, the reopening of Kobe's schools. Middle East: Another...
Initial speculation in this case centers upon plastic explosives like Semtex, the lethal weapon of choice for many terrorists because it is safe to - handle and undetectable by sniffer dogs or X-ray inspection. A small amount hidden in a portable radio blew Pan Am Flight 103 out of the sky in 1988. Semtex was produced in quantity under the communist government of Czechoslovakia; while the postcommunist Czech Republic has discontinued production, large quantities remain in the hands of terrorist gangs that obtained them illicitly. Three years ago, Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel estimated that "world terrorism has supplies of Semtex...
Davies' narrative style is playful to the end, and this sustains the book. Finally, the Sniffer is revenged, the present accounted for and Gil learns, ironically, to "Wake up, man! Come alive! Feel before you think! "The true joy of the novel is not in the final revenge nor even in the final lesson, but in the grace and wit with which Davies renders a history and in the sweet and artful confusion of Gil's afterlife...