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- <text id=89TT2829>
- <title>
- Oct. 30, 1989: Business Notes:Computers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Oct. 30, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 75
- Business Notes
- COMPUTERS
- Think You Can Hack It?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> When LeeMah DataCom Security wanted to demonstrate the
- impregnability of its computer safeguard, the company decided
- to lay down a dare. The California firm, which provides
- equipment to protect mainframes against interlopers, challenged
- U.S. computer hackers to crack its code during a weeklong
- contest. In messages sent to electronic bulletin boards
- frequently used by hackers, LeeMah promised that any successful
- code breaker would win a trip for two to St. Moritz or Tahiti.
- More than 7,000 phone calls came into LeeMah from dozens of
- hackers trying to beat the system, but none were able to
- retrieve the hidden message in the computer. The odds against
- them, estimated LeeMah: 720 quadrillion to 1.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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