One of the proposed advantages of the software solution is the ability to run a real-time simulation for operator training, and there have been some questions from our top management about why the software developers insist that this is exceptionally important. Yesterday, an operator attempted to manually track a live missile for the first time. This was printed in The Times yesterday April 16th. I am particularly intrigued by the prosecution under the forgery laws. I don't see how you can forge something like a telephone number - surely to be protected by a forgery law, an identification should be personal in some sense.
Numeric codes are completely impersonal.
Prestel blunder 'helped hacker'. A top-level blunder allowed a computer journalist to penetrate British Telecom's Prestel information system, a court was told yesterday. A secret identification code allowing access to secret files was left unprotected within the computer system it was said. Mr Robert Schifreen, aged 22, used it to get the confidential identity numbers and passwords of every Prestel customer, Southwark Crown Court was told. Mr Austin Issard-Davies, for the prosecution, said a random experiment first gave him the telephone numbers of Prestel's private computers.