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which was presented to him by British Telecom as part of a publicity campaign when the system was launched.

3 The supposed information on surveillance of the CND, the Labour Party and the Cabinet was certainly fantasy. Nick also denies even attempting to hack the MoD or MI5 computers.

4 The Witness Protection Program is a scheme, funded by the federal government, to provide protection for key witnesses in important criminal prosecutions, generally involving organized crime or drug smuggling. The witnesses and their families are provided with new identities and new lives in return for their testimony.

Data Crime

1 AT&T has estimated the losses due to blue boxes in the years up to the mid-1970s as between $20 and $30 million annually. Though the use of MF-ers has certainly declined, some canny phreakers are still said to be making use of blue boxes as well as their successors, beige boxes.

2 Copy protection was introduced by software manufacturers to prevent the unauthorized copying of their programs. It prevents the transfer of programs on diskette from computer to computer.

3 According to computer security consultants this is astoundingly easy to do. Credit agencies are said to have been notoriously lax about computer security until recently.

4 The worm would work at night because the Palo Alto Research Center, in common with most labs, kept its computers on twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

5 The German title translates directly as ‘The Big Computer Virus Book’. The English edition is, however, entitled Computer Viruses – A High-Tech Disease.

6 Burger's book is now in its fourth German edition, having sold 24,000 copies; editions in English, French and Italian have sold a further 20,000 copies. Unauthorized pirate editions are said to have been published in Saudi Arabia and Russia.

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