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Johan Helsingius' personal computer may be the most loathed machine in cyberspace. Cranks routinely E-mail bomb it, trying to level the IBM clone with millions of pages of gibberish. Hot-headed hackers dispatch bit-eating "worm" programs to Helsinki to search for and destroy the computer's precious electronic cargo. A few vengeful folks have even threatened Helsingius himself, for what would the machine be without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNMASKED ON THE NET | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

Diplomats say the death toll has climbed above 500 a week. To date, at least 30,000 Algerians have died, and guerrillas have burned down 600 schools and several universities. What remains of the rest of the country's infrastructure is badly crippled. Rebels destroy trains and tracks almost nightly. At least three key bridges in the Algiers regions were destroyed this month. The official Algerian Press Service claims sabotage operations caused more than $1 billion in damage last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: THE PRISON OF BLOOD | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...They care big-time,'' Codex says. ``They're going to destroy Simoleons. And they're going to step all over your family in the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...Because if they don't destroy E-money,'' Codex says, ``E-money will destroy them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...their Simoleons for comic books and baseball cards and claim it's safer. They will intentionally go bankrupt and blame it on you. They will show up in twos and threes on tawdry talk shows to report mysterious disappearances of their Simoleons during Metaverse transactions. They will, in short, destroy the image -- and the business -- of your client. The result: victory for the government, which hates and fears private currencies. And bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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