There is a security procedure that can prevent this from happening, but many people simply don't use it. Consumers and entrepreneurs crowd onto the information highway, where electronic bandits and other hazards await them. Sound bytes galore from Dorothy Denning, Peter Neumann, Donn Parker, Mark Abene, Gene Spafford and others. Last year nationwide toll-fraud attempts increased by about 50 percent during the Christmas week. Tis the season to be wary.
Sadomasochists meet the cyberpunks.
Leather meet hypernormalcy. It was a night for mingling among the subcultures to share their different approaches to messing with mind and body. This place doesn't exist in a physical location, but anyone can visit from their home computer by hooking into vast electronic networks. A blindfolded man dressed in a jock strap and high heeled boots stood on stage while helpers pinned flashing Christmas lights to his flesh with thin needles. Then a man with deer antlers tied to his forehead whipped him.