Word: steals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike almost any other virus written, the Cornell virus was not designed to destroy files, steal or change data, play pranks on the users, or even allow its creator to gain illegal access to the infected networks--its sole purpose was to spread itself to every machine it found...
...American Civil Liberties Union, said the case would probably fall under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. which deals with government computer systems and carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison. That law applies to the case only if it can be proved Morris intended to steal information from restricted computer files or to disrupt computer facilities...
Victims of hurricanes, drought, debts, superstition and disease, peasants are constantly preyed upon. Those with a bit of land are hesitant to improve it for fear of attracting the attention of covetous gros negs, who often hire corrupt lawyers to steal the land on one pretext or another. The rural police, notaries and Tonton Macoutes also seize property with a flourish of phony documents and a bag of city tricks. Even those who try to help the peasants often end up hurting them. When African swine fever hit the pig population of Haiti several years ago, Haitian authorities, under...
...felt betrayed by Shearson's chairman, Peter Cohen. For one thing, Kravis and Cohen, 41, were friends and former classmates at the Columbia Business School. Moreover, Kravis had previously spoken to Johnson about a buyout of RJR Nabisco. Now it seemed to Kravis that Cohen was trying to steal the deal. Actually, Johnson had brought the idea to a trusted friend: James Robinson III, chairman of American Express and Cohen's boss...
Hirscuer apparently scored again with five minutes remaining after making a steal and beating the Harvard defense. But the referee ruled that another Bruin was offsides and the call was negated...