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<text id=89TT2829>
<title>
Oct. 30, 1989: Business Notes:Computers
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Oct. 30, 1989 San Francisco Earthquake
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 75
Business Notes
COMPUTERS
Think You Can Hack It?
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<p> When LeeMah DataCom Security wanted to demonstrate the
impregnability of its computer safeguard, the company decided
to lay down a dare. The California firm, which provides
equipment to protect mainframes against interlopers, challenged
U.S. computer hackers to crack its code during a weeklong
contest. In messages sent to electronic bulletin boards
frequently used by hackers, LeeMah promised that any successful
code breaker would win a trip for two to St. Moritz or Tahiti.
More than 7,000 phone calls came into LeeMah from dozens of
hackers trying to beat the system, but none were able to
retrieve the hidden message in the computer. The odds against
them, estimated LeeMah: 720 quadrillion to 1.
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</body></article>
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