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Redesigning a 125 year-old building to house all those functions amidst and above the underground Loker Commons is even more daunting...
That rip in the curtain of privacy is certain to send a chill through cyberspace: Helsingius has become the keeper of the Who's Who of the computer underground. Stored in his 200-megabyte data base is a master list of the names and E-mail addresses of everybody who has ever sought the shelter of his service: pornographers and political exiles; software pirates and corporate whistle blowers; the sexually abused and their abusers. The need for anonymous remailers stems from the design of the Internet, which tags every packet of data with an electronic address...
...French forces tortured, imprisoned and guillotined Algerian guerrillas. Today it is where the government holds 1,000 of as many as 30,000 Islamists reportedly jailed around the country. One former inmate told TIME he had been held for six weeks of solitary confinement in a dark, rat-infested underground cell, tormented by two prison guards...
...Packard engineer. Before their success with Apple, both Steves developed and sold ``blue boxes,'' outlaw devices for making free telephone calls. Their contemporary and early collaborator, Lee Felsenstein, who designed the first portable computer, known as the Osborne 1, was a New Left radical who wrote for the renowned underground paper the Berkeley Barb...
...think we can now put the jokes behind us," said Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, as Denver International Airport prepared to open Tuesday -- 16 months late, $3.2 billion over budget and with underground carts tugging baggage every which way as most of a computerized system continues to malfunction. At 12:41 a.m. Monday, the first commercial flight (a Federal Express plane) touched down. The jokes started again, though, when a snowstorm developed later in the day, threatening to force the airport to close before the first passenger jet arrives Tuesday at 6 a.m. As for the baggage system, designed to allow...