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American Bell's main competitors in the market will be IBM and General Telephone & Electronics. IBM already has a service named Information Network that makes possible the high-speed transfer of computer data. GTE's subsidiary Telenet has about 700 customers for a similar system...
...confederate's tip led to his discovery. To be a computer-age thief, you need nothing more than an inexpensive home computer, a telephone and a few light-fingered skills. As in the Dalton case, computer passwords are often short and simple. Be sides, computer networks like Telenet or Datapac, frequently publicize their numbers to attract customers. Once into the computer system, there are other barriers to crash, and other techniques for purloining information...
...customer, calling from Ottawa, was furious. Someone, he complained to officials of Telenet, a telecommunications network based in Vienna, Va., was using its lines to penetrate his company's computer. As a result, his operations were fouled up. The next week another computer network, named Datapac and tied to Telenet, got a similar call from a firm in Montreal. Its circuits too were being plagued by electronic interlopers...
...size bandits, perhaps the youngest computer con men ever nabbed, had obtained the Telenet phone number, coupled their school terminals to the line, and probably by nothing more than trial and error punched out the right combinations-in this case only five letters and numbers-to link up with the computers. More shrewd guesswork got them the "password" to log onto and operate the machines...
...Bell is expecting. The announcement came last week as A T & T, the world's largest corporation, shuffled its management and company organization to prepare for the birth of an independent subsidiary. The new offspring, nicknamed Baby Bell, will battle IBM, Xerox and GTE's Telenet for supremacy in the burgeoning computer communications market. It will begin life as a giant with about 15% of Bell's $122 billion in assets, and by 1985 Baby Bell may be doing $10 billion worth of business...