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...Belgium, were reeling from shock. The nun, a local woman whose name was Cecile Bombeek before she joined the Josephites, had been accused of stealing more than $30,000 from her elderly patients in order to support a morphine habit. Far worse, after she had been charged with theft, Sister Godfrida placidly confessed to killing three old people with overdoses of insulin because they had been "too difficult at night." But she did it "sweetly," she insisted, and none of the three had suffered. Admitted Dr. Jean-Paul De Corte, a member of the hospital's governing board...
...relationships with their own computers?instructing the other computers to cut off telephone, bank and other services, for example. The danger lies in the fast-expanding computer data banks, with their concentration of information about people and governments, and in the possibility of access to those repositories. Already, computer theft is a growth industry, so much so that the FBI has a special program to train agents to cope with the electronic cutpurses...
Though electronic pilfering currently amounts to less than 1% of the $41 billion in annual business thefts by employees and company executives, it is far more serious than stealing from petty cash, and much harder to uncover. In 1973 officers of Eq uity Funding Corp. of America, a Los Angeles-based insurance firm, used the company's computer to give a false impression of Equity's assets by fabricating $2 billion worth of phony life in surance policies. Since big computers can cost tens or even hundreds of dollars a second to operate, their unauthorized use for private...
...spokesman did not say whether anyone was in the building, which is frequently used as a guest house for the Faculty, at the time of the theft...
...robbery is the second major theft of art work on loan from the Fogg in less than two years...