Prosecutors claimed she had used a specially configured laptop computer to transmit messages to the computer of an unnamed Russian official.
By clicking on a link and connecting to a "poisoned" Web site, the employee inadvertently permitted the intruders to gain access to his (or her) personal computer and then to the computers of a critical group of software developers at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
And does it have to be stored on the computer of a centralized authority?" The world is connected through the internet now; it is at everyone's fingertips.
The teeming and shrewdly conceived cast of characters is centered on Peter, the young man who comes to suspect the computer of having a mind of its own and yearning for the human touch.
He manipulated the telephone system to disguise the location of his calls and even used a sophisticated hacking technique called IP spoofing to attack the computer of Tsutomu Shimomura, a computer security specialist at the University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Mr. Crenshaw said that when a person ordered music online, his computer or music player would provide the encoding key to the server computer of a Web site dispensing the music.
Of course, to attach a robot to the computers of the 1960s — mainframes the size of entire rooms — would be laughable.
Does it come to your head and you have to run to the computer or a piece of paper?
Or, better still, in an analogy to the computer programming enthusiasts of a generation ago, some call us biohackers.
Writing Secure Code notes that logging on to your computer as a member of the administrators group with privileges to do anything to the computer, some of it downright nasty is a bad idea, except when absolutely necessary.
