European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Codes and my by Evans Witt att dated press in this electronic not every Bank robber needs it he May find a computer terminal and phone line More and instead at the Witult terrorist could me a computer terminal to open the floodgates of a shut Down a cites Dedric Power or erase an insure company theft by computer ii no longer a sabotage by computer has remained isolated and unpublicized thus Many computers that control crucial operations in the Public and private sphere or contain personal information on virtually every american Are vulnerable to computer Security has become a big puzzles cryptograms and codes provide one Means of Protection unbelievably esoteric puzzles that would take the fastest computer billions of years to design of obese punks has generated a shadowy conflict la the regions of higher mathematics be tween the nation most secret spy Agency and Aca demies working on codes to safeguard computer the professor believe that the National Security Agency has tried to stifle Public discussion of heir re search because an code that becomes generally available might crimp Nsasi intercepting and decoding of communications by foreign governments and they concerned that failure to pursue heir re search could allow intelligence agencies to gain up aral dear is that the centralizing of information in allows greater opportunities for per easy compilation of for a de l picture of most americans could be built from the to the internal Revenue service and the social Secu y administration and the eve increasing Speed and Power at Cam ers has Given Rise to Dew methods of fraud i deceit computer crime that didst exist before s that Are victimized dont like to talk about r obvious and computer crimes Are often it to but they Are one study is the average Booty la nearly per i the to forestall meddling with compute Don physical Security like making sure that Only authorized people were allowed into the air conditioned Sanctum when the computer blinked and its no longer one Day last a nun called the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis and asked for a Transfer of from the Aberdeen National Bank in South Dakota to Citi Zens and Southern in me supplied the Days Coda and the Money was but the Man was a con artist and he had just taken the feds nationwide Transfer system for a tiny part of the of trillion the computerized system transfers every year simply with electronic signals Between com someone with the necessary skills and knowl Edge can gain Access to Many computers by simply dial ing the right Telephone number from anywhere in the vital government information and secret business data Are sent Over Ordinary Telephone one computer Eipert tells of us consternation of a Tennessee Valley authority official when Tou that someone could ill in us borne with a computer Ler Minal and a Telephone and order thai computers to open the flood Gates on its the spread of computer terminals and mind compute no larger than two shoehorn also has increased the Porti indy for for Oil company employees in Alaska were using the company computer in Texas to develop bids for of Federal land that they hoped would produce the company bids lost by Only a few Dol says Donn a computer Security expert at sri International in Menlo suspecting Indus trial Oil company officials checked out the company Telephone line in about three mites Down the they found another building where two wires were attached to their Tele phone inside the building was an identical printing out everything that they had been getting on their that passive but snoopers or Crooks with computer savvy could also Lap into a line and change information As it goes from a terminal to a com Puter for changing a Bank account number to the sophisticated codes seem among the Best ways to protect so a web vulnerable encoding information converts it into an apparently meaning lest series of with a material tart Era of stored to us original i this Wodda Vekert the Oil i but while codes mute things much Many can be broken there is a truly unbreakable but its i and expensive that the very highest i mull cations use it the protected by such a so the search has continued for an 1 that is practical for users other than groups think they have found one the and the academic researchers it r Diu sets Institute of which is where the National Security j comes codes Arensas keep codes it monitors i agencies codes and deciphers it search produced a readily they wont be Able to read Engineer put Independent at Stanford t group of mathematical functions problems that forms the basis of the coi Ere believe both encoding and decoding can i device Simitar to a pocket calculator and u would be impervious to r of computers would have to work i researchers is the reason Sterious letter received shortly before an electrical and electronic engineers sen thai included discussions of the developers1 the letter to the Ieese from waned that Ducan Loa of the i terns or distribution of technical i Federal lows prohibiting weapons Aad defense they May not be aware of the full men controls11 said the some of 1 cussed Are intended for govern and unless clearances Are obtained 3 could find itself in possible violation of Ibel sources in a position to know say Meyer it of although the Agency will not in any the seminar went onus Ber at Cornell University at on advice of one of the Hellman of read the papers of to University lawyers said a f Gold dip by Thomas Kent a Sandaler press very Winter Day in the heart of downtown thousands of men and women disappear into a giant Cloud of steam that seems to Rise out of the Earth just two blocks from the the steam pours from the surface of a lavish circular swimming Pool that has become an outdoor habit for people a apparently unconcerned by the Dag Gering beating the City fathers keep the 1zs feet heated to 80 decrees fare Helt whatever he Winter weather and invite the whole City in fora its not bad at just Ilka an indoor Pool except that you have to Dunk your Bead under a lot to keep it exults a teenager named Zhenya who comes la the peal every weekend from Moscow outer robust men and women Are every navigating through the diving from a High platform and leaping out for dives into nearby the Pool also operates la the and Bat Dace its is in the its Day shutdown for repair work lakes pure during the hottest Pool director Sergei Lor Merly Champion soviet claims theres nothing unhealthy about swimming around in the midst of All kinds o muscovites come to the not just til Ness fanatics of the Type swim every year in the Lee of the Moscow people feel better when there swim Butkevich the children who swim Here Are almost 100 per cent healthy when we had the flu epidemic this they didst get 1l these adds Are hardened the Pool also has an old with members ranging up to 10 years in a so Kopek 85 cent admission charge brings the right to swim in the tool for one hour and to borrow the rubber on a recent Day in one of the toe Back and teams Der on the edges of swimmers de the Pool through a narrow to tire Page 14 the stars and stripes on a Winter the Pool looks like a fogged in towers and the due Melnate Little More mind Tea inv 0e trim Roig lighted red stars looming Over he entire j lost Ummen companies by an Vised group at All a Bard to the c track of them in All to swimmers Are split Tow really feels to swim in the i some say its no colder 4 Jake in the heating there 1st