Word: saboteurs
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...years at Sandia National Laboratories researching nuclear-reactor safety, says plant operators focus security efforts on keeping bad guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build in fail-safe mechanisms that would prevent a saboteur from engineering a catastrophe. As a result, says Paul Blanch, a nuclear-safety expert who oversaw reactors for Northeast Utilities in Connecticut for 25 years, "a knowledgeable terrorist inside a control room can cause a meltdown in fairly short order...
...week before being named CEO of Sirius, he told a broadcasters' conference in Portugal that while Stern made a "brilliant" deal for himself, "the jury is out on whether or not it is good for anybody else." To the old guard at Sirius, Karmazin certainly seemed like a saboteur. "They thought my agenda was to hold back satellite radio," he says of talks he had with Sirius in 2003 about a link with Viacom. What changed his mind? Stern, for one thing, Sirius' deal with the NFL for another, and a lucrative contract to run a publicly traded company...
...years ago, using an ordinary modem and telephone, a young software saboteur penetrated the system at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with another kind of subversive programming, called a "trap door." The program collected users' passwords as they logged on. No matter how often legitimate users changed their sign-on codes, the hacker was able to gain unauthorized access to the hospital's records by summoning the intervening trapdoor and reading off the newly accumulated list of passwords. The culprit was later apprehended. He pleaded guilty and faced a maximum penalty of six months in jail...
...learn how Hitchcock manipulates his cameras to make the indelible image of Norman Lloyd appearing to fall from the Statue of Liberty in Saboteur, and that many of the stage actors that worked with him, including Lawrence Olivier, Judith Anderson, and John Gielgud, originally disapproved of his stiff directing methods, but were later grateful for working with him on something so lasting...
...creatively, respiratorially—and yet, deliriously enticing. Every year, fresh-faced first-years glide like gazelles up the four steps to that big red door, their eyes narrowed into a determined squint, their lips locked in straight lines with curving corners that project the joy of the saboteur. “Today I will hold someone accountable,” they think. “Today I will earn a victory for the common...