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Three flights up a scruffy building in central Moscow, a small paper sign pasted on the wall directs visitors to Directorate R of the Moscow police. R stands for nothing: it was just the next code letter available in 1986 when the police decided to set up their own communications-security branch. These days the Directorate's bread-and-butter work is computer and mobile-phone fraud. But their biggest nightmare - and that of their counterparts in Western Europe and the U.S. - is digital attack. "This, unfortunately, is the future face of terrorism," says Dmitri Chepchugov, head of Directorate...
...They’re positively afraid of [Lewis],” he says. “This is the code they used: ‘It’s very important we have a good relationship with University Hall.’ That’s code for: ‘Don’t piss Harry...
Whitehead’s code of ethics was exemplified in his rule that Goldman would not fund the hostile corporate takeovers that occurred frequently in the early 1980s...
...When the program wouldn’t work, [the professionals] would always complain that Bill’s code had bugs, but it was mostly their part of the program that didn’t work,” Sethna says...
...sample of saliva Ridgway gave in 1987. The new technology, called short-tandem-repeat testing, or STR, which has been available only since 1997, has revolutionized DNA analysis because of its unprecedented accuracy. STR measures 13 tiny repeating sections in a DNA sample, which effectively represent a unique bar code on any individual's genome. It is now widely used by police agencies and the FBI, and has been used in mass graves in Bosnia and in the World Trade Center wreckage...