Word: traced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intruder's appetite for military data is what eventually did him in. To trick him into staying connected long enough to effect a telephone trace, Stoll dangled an irresistible lure: a file of bogus Star Wars information titled SDI Network Project. The sting worked. The hacker stayed on the line for more than an hour, greedily loading the phony data into his home computer. (The information was booby-trapped as well, containing an address in Berkeley for more information on the fictitious project.) West German authorities, working with the FBI, traced the call to the Hannover apartment, questioned its occupant...
...yellow-white carpet. Flustered, I called to the butler and asked him to do what he could with my destruction while I cleaned off my shoes in the bathroom. When I went back to the living room, scared to death, the carpet was spotless. Not a trace of a stain anywhere. The yellow glowed like sunshine. Several other guests were in the room now, chatting away raucously, as if nothing dirty had ever happened in their midst. The journalist simply stared at the place where the mud had been...
...growing more and more lethargic, as if a hidden organism were sapping their strength. Then, one day last month, thousands of Macintosh users were greeted with an unexpected "message of peace" from the publisher of a Canadian computer magazine, which flashed briefly on their screens and disappeared without a trace...
...first time, the mother says, "He's like a troll, or a goblin or something." Harriet names him Ben and brings him home to his father and siblings, who learn to shun and fear him. The infant is physically precocious and incredibly strong, and he betrays no trace of human sympathy or fellowship. A dog and a cat about the premises die mysteriously, apparently strangled. David and Harriet come to view Ben as an enemy, one who "had willed himself to be born, had invaded their ordinariness, which had no defences against him or anything like...
...other faculty caution that it would be difficult to trace which new traits Dukakis could have picked up at the Kennedy School...