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Neither draconian laws nor increased police action is likely to thwart computer thieves. Most authorities agree that computer owners must install more elaborate security measures. Says one: "Cracking a computer system's defenses is about as difficult as doing a hard Sunday crossword puzzle." One computer, protected by a five-digit code number, was illegally entered in minutes when the thief ordered the computer to begin trying every one of the 100,000 possible combinations. But tighter security would cost both money and time. Says Robert Courtney of I.B.M. "If you're running thousands of transactions...
...system (see diagram), which has now been completed along roughly one-sixth of the frontier, the first fence has been eliminated, while a deep, concrete-lined ditch has been added. It is intended to thwart would-be escapees trying to crash the border in cars or trucks. West of the ditch is a minefield, then a new close-meshed wire fence that begins 3 ft. underground (to prevent tunneling) and rises 10 ft. above the earth...
After the election, when it looked as if Carter and Burns were on a collision course over whether to stimulate the economy, there was speculation that Burns would try to thwart any presidential attempt at fiscal pump priming by tightening up sharply on credit. In recent weeks the Federal Reserve has indeed begun raising short-term interest rates-to try to rein in what it considers an overly rapid growth in the money supply now that inflation is bumping back up to double-digit levels. The Federal Reserve's move toward tighter credit, while welcomed by businessmen who share...
Frei opposed the legislation on the grounds that it would "thwart the present federal regulations" and that it would discourage cancer victims from seeking a truly effective treatment...
...occupiers had come to plant seeds and protect the marsh, to share music and back massages, and to befriend the police. But most of all they had come to protest and to act, to use their bodies as well as their minds to thwart the construction of the plant. They stayed until Sunday, when the police came out of their compound and carried them off to buses and then to jail. Yesterday 880 were still there...