Word: code
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occassionaly publish a so-called humor magazine is in hot water with the fire department and the Harvard police for repeated fire code violations this month, the latest coming after the Cambridge Fire Department caught 'Poonsters starting a fire inside their own building. And what were they burning? A newspaper. Imagine that...
...Lampoon's president, who now may face charges of arson and criminal negligence, not to mention disciplinary action from the College. The Cambridge Fire Department (CFD), fed up with repeated calls to the Lampoon and the organization's arrogant response to requests they bring their building up to code, seems intent on throwing the book at Hely. There have been 13 calls to the Lampoon so far this year, up from "only" 10 all of last year, and the police, the fire department and the Lampoon's neighbors have had enough. There is even an outside possibility that the city...
...city's rave scene changed from spontaneous get-togethers to organized, clandestine parties complete with code words and secret phone lines, Papa and his friends were drawn to the action and quickly began to see the moneymaking possibilities. Using a supplier in Las Vegas, they began distributing low-grade ecstasy pills to clubs or wherever else the party drug was wanted. "Papa didn't need Sammy to teach him to be a gangster. He came by it honestly," explained a source familiar with the group. By all accounts, the ecstasy ring was led by Papa, a premed student...
Still, a DEA source theorizes, even as a mentor, Gravano "seems to have forgotten all he learned. He just did everything wrong. He used his own house for meetings and to store drugs. He used his own telephone without even trying to use code words. He drove a flashy Lexus that made him stand out. He left records of the transactions around. He used his wife to monitor the money and kids to run the operation. He prided himself on being a mobster. But he sure forgot what John Gotti taught...
...front and bits of Velcro tape on the back. Called a "skimmer," the device can read and store the data embedded within a charge card's magnetic stripe--not only the name, number and expiration date that appear on the card's face but also an invisible, encrypted verification code that is transmitted electronically from merchant to card issuer to confirm a card's validity at the point of sale. By copying that code, the counterfeiter has all the data needed to create a perfect clone of the charge card...