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Japan – Want RevengeRocky Mountain News

La Rouche Calls For War On Japan

Extremist Views Speak Loud

Los Angeles Time

12% GNP Reduction Estimated

Rich and Poor Both Suffer

USA Today

Soviets Ask For Help

Want To Avoid Similar Fate

London Telegraph

International Monetary Fund Ponders Next Move

Christian Science Monitor * Security: The New Marketing Tool by Scott Mason

American business always seems to turn a problem into a profit,

and the current computer confidence crisis is no different.

In spontaneous cases of simultaneous marketing genius, banks are

attempting to garner new customers as well as retain their exist-

ing customers. As many banks continue to have unending difficul-

ties in protecting their computers, the Madison Avenue set has

found a theme that may set the tone of banking for years to come.

Bank With Us: Your Money Is Safer. Third Federal Savings and Loan Your Money Is Protected – Completely, Mid South Alliance Bank

Banks have taken to advertising the sanctity of their vaults and

the protective measures many organizations have hastily installed

since the Foster Plan was made public. In an attempt to win

customers, banks have installed extra security measures to insure

that the electronic repositories that store billions of dollars

are adequately protected; something that banks and the ABA openly

admit has been overlooked until recently.

The new marketing techniques of promoting security are not the

exclusive domain of the financial community. Insurance compa-

nies, private lending institutions, police departments, hospitals

and most major corporations are announcing their intentions to

secure their computers against future assaults.

*

Foster GUILTY! Plea Deal Falls Apart

Sentencing Hearing Date Set

New York Post

University Protests “Closed Computing”

Insist Freedom on Information Critical For Progress

US News and World Report

Fifty New Viruses Appear Daily

Complacency Still Biggest Threats

Tampa Tribune

NSA/ITSEC Agreement Near

International Security Standards Readied

Federal Computer Week

Justice Department Leads Fight Against Organized Computer Crime

Baltimore Sun

Novell Networks Now Secure

Government Computer News

OSO Offers Reparations: Directors Resign

Wall Street Journal

American and Delta Propose Merger

Nashville Tennessean

Citizen Groups Promote Safe Computing

St. Paul Register

April 15 IRS Deadline Extended 90 Days

Washington Post

49 States Propose Interstate Computer Laws

Harvard Law Review

Courts Work Overtime on Computer Cases

Christian Science Monitor

AT&T Plans New Encryption For Voice

Communications

Microsoft Announces Secure DOS

Admits Earlier Versions “Wide Open”

PC Week

3500 Foster Viruses Identified: 5000 To Go

Info World

National Computer Security Plan Cost: $500 Billion

Wall Street Journal

An End Is In Sight Says NSA

Public Skeptical

New York City Times

Foster Receives Harsh Penalty: 145 Years

Appeal Process Begins, Foster Remains in Custody

Washington Post *

The press is often criticized for ‘grand standing’ and ‘sensa-

tionalizing’ otherwise insignificant events into front page news,

but in this case the government said little about the media’s

handling of the situation. In fact, privately, the White House

was pleased that the media, albeit loudly and crassly, was a key

element in getting the message to the American public:

Secure Your Computers Or Else.

Everyone agreed with that.

* December 17 Overlooking Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

“You must feel pretty good. Pulitzer Prize. Half of the writing

awards for last year, nomination for Man of the Year.”

“The steaks are burning.” The hype had been too much. Scott

alone had to carry forward the standard. He had become expected

to lead a movement of protest and dissent. Despite his pleas,

his neutrality as a reporter was in constant danger of compro-

mise.

“It’s kind of strange talking to a living legend.”

Scott’s deeply tanned body and lighter hair was quite a contrast

to the sickly paleness of New Yorkers in winter. “Get the sprit-

zer, water the coals and then fuck yourself.”

“Isn’t this what you wanted?” Tyrone scanned the exquisite view

from the estate sized homestead overlooking Charlotte Amalie

Harbor on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The safe enclosed

harbor housed three cruise ships, but the hundreds of sailboats

in the clear Caribbean dominated the seascape.

After the last year, Scott had decided to finally take time off

for a proper honeymoon. He and Sonja elected to spend an extend-

ed holiday on St. Thomas, in a rented house with a cook and a

maid and a diving pool and a satellite dish and all of the lux-

uries of stateside living without the residual headaches.

Their head over heels romance surprised no one but themselves and

they both preferred to let the past stay a part of the past.

Scott decided quickly to take Sonja at her word. Her past was

her past, and he had to not let it bother him or they would have

no future. Even if he was one of her jobs for a short while.

Scott’s name was in constant demand as a result of his expos of

Homosoto and the hackers. Fame was something Scott had not

wanted specifically. He had imagined himself the great transla-

tor, making the cacophony of incomprehensible technical polysyl-

labics intelligible to ‘everyman’. He had not planned for fame;

merely another demand on his time, his freedom and his creativi-

ty.

“What I wanted was a break.” Scott poked at the steaks. In the

pool Arlene Duncan and Sonja kicked their feet and chattered

aimlessly. The perfect respite. The Times made Scott the most

generous tenure offers in a generation of writers, and Scott

recognized the fairness of the offers. It was not now, nor had

it ever been a question of money, though.

“What’s next?”

“The book, I suppose. The Trial of Miles Foster.”

“And then back to the Times?”

“Maybe, maybe. I haven’t given it much thought,” Scott said

watering down the coals to reduce the intensity of the barbecue

inferno he had created. “I promised to help out once in a while.

Officially they call it a sabbatical.”

“How long do you think you can hold out on this rock before going

nuts?”

“We’ve managed pretty well, so far.” Scott said admiring his

bride whose phenomenal physical beauty was tightly wrapped in the

high French cut one piece bathing suit that Scott insisted she

wear in honor of their more conservative guests. Tyrone, he was

sure, would not have minded Sonja’s nudity, but Arlene would have

been on the next flight to Boston and her parents.

“Three months so far, and nine months to go. I think I can take

it,” he said staring at Sonja and motioning to the view.

Tyrone silently conveyed understanding for Scott’s choice of an

island retreat to get away from it all. But Tyrone’s choices

demanded his presence within driving distance of civilization.

“So the bureau wasn’t too upset about your leaving?” Scott

changed the subject.

“I guess not,” Tyrone said laughing. “I was approaching mandato-

ry anyway and I’d become too big a pain in their asses. Using

your hackers didn’t endear me to too many of the Director’s

staff.”

“What about your friend?”

“You mean Bob Burnson?”

“Yeah, the guy we met at Ebbett’s . . .”

“He got his promotion right after I left. I guess I was holding

him back,” Tyrone said with tongue in cheek. “On the other hand,

I could have stayed and really made his life miserable. We’re

both at peace. Best of all? Still friends.”

“I have to say, though, I never thought you’d go through with

it,” said Scott turning the steaks. “You and the Bureau, a

thirty year affair.”

“Not quite thirty . . .”

“Whatever. You’ve certainly built up a practice and a half in

six months.”

“Yeah,” chuckled Tyrone. “Like you, I never planned on becoming

a big player . . .Christ. Who ever thought that Computer Law

would be the next Cabbage Patch Doll of the courts?” Tyrone saw

the smirk in Scott’s face. “O.K., you did. Yes, you predicted a

mess in the courts. Yes, you did Mr. Wisenheimer. I just saw it

as a neat little extension of constitutional law and then whammo!

All of sudden, computer litigation is the hip place to be. Every

type of lawsuit you predicted is somewhere in the legal system –

SEC suits, copyright suits, privacy suits, theft of data, theft

of service.”

“Sounds like everyone who was scared to admit they had a problem

in the past is going balls to the wall.”

“The Japanese lawyers are living their worst nightmare: OSO

Industries is up to top of its colon with lawsuits, including one

asking for OSO to be denied any access to the American market for

100 years.”

Scott whistled long and loud, then laughed. “And that’s fun?”

“You’re goddamned right, it’s fun,” Ty asserted, popping