Word: trojan
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Computer crooks have developed a whole bag of electronic tricks. One is the so-called Trojan Horse. Like the famed ruse used by the Greeks to penetrate Troy, it helps an interloper get into forbidden recesses of a computer. The mischiefmaker slyly slips some extra commands into a computer program (the instructions by which the machine performs a given task). Then when another programmer with higher clearance runs the program, he will unwittingly trigger the covert instructions. These unlock the guarded areas, just as the Greek soldiers hidden in the horse unlocked Troy's gates. The culprit might then...
Frankenthaler's works have been exhibited throughout the world; her most acclaimed include Jacob's Ladder, awarded a first prize at the 1959 Biennale de Paris, Trojan Gates and Blue Territory. Frankenthaler once told an interviewer, "Painting is a matter of making some kind of beautiful order out of human feeling and experience...
...Muskie-Gromyko meeting. And this week, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev planned to get together for their very own summit. Said a senior Administration official: "This is the long-awaited Soviet peace offensive - with France as the Trojan horse...
...student newspaper, the Daily Trojan, reported last month that federal work-study funds were misused in the cooperative arrangement between the debate and football teams. The Trojan said advisers to the teams forged federal documents and invented a program in which debaters tutored football players to earn work-study funds. Debaters never actually tutored the players, however...
Eighteen years ago, when Murray Rose graduated from USC, the former Trojan swim hero did not look to his four Olympic gold medals for a quick boost up the ladder in the competitive world of mass media. Rose, who majored in communications, is one of those rare people who can say that their undergraduate careers prepared them for the future...