Even I.B.M., in promoting its first PC, tried to undermine the computer's association with corporate power, marketing its machine using images of Charlie Chaplin's tramp, who had twitted the gears of industry in "Modern Times".
The danger of such hidden circuitry is that it could potentially undermine the strongest computer security protections by essentially giving an attacker a secret key to gain access to a network or a computer.
The high divorce rate, the reluctance of teenage children to leave their computers or friends in town and the cost of maintenance are all factors, he says, in undermining the market for the estimated 3,000,000 second homes in France.
The volatility is undermining the profession".
In January 2009, The New York Times reported that Mr. Bush authorized a covert program to undermine the electrical and computer systems around Natanz, Iran's major enrichment center.
It is important to point that the results presented in this study should not undermine the use of computer games in classroom environment even in Higher Education.
What's more, governments and their intelligence agencies are actively working to undermine the security of our computers and networks.
Just as cheap personal computers undermined the mainframe business in the 1980s and open-source programs like Linux and Mysql are challenging Microsoft and Oracle today, outfits like Fastcase are attacking Wexis' stranglehold on legal research from the bottom up.
And it may have undermined the value of its personal computer business by saying it was considering selling it off.
Analysts say a wide range of forces is undermining holiday computer sales to the consumer market: * Consumer debt levels are high and there are numerous signs that the economy is slowing, exactly the conditions to make consumers and small-business owners think twice about purchases of costly items like cars, appliances and computers.
