Terminal Compromise

August, 4 Years Ago. National Security Agency Fort George S. Meade, Maryland. Thousands of disk drives spun rapidly, at over 3600 rpm. The massive computer room, ...

Friday, September 4 San Francisco, California Mr. Henson?" "Yes, Maggie?" Henson responded over the hands free phone on his highly polished black marble desk. He never lo...

Tuesday, September 8, New York City But they told me they wouldn't tell! They promised." Hugh Sidneys pleaded into his side of the phone. "How did you find out?" At first,...

Thursday, September 10 Houston, Texas. Angela Steinem dialed extension 4343, Network Administration for MIS at the Treadline Oil Company in Houston, Texas. It rang thr...

Monday, September 14 New York City Doug! Doug!" Scott hollered across the city room. As in most newspaper offices, the constant scurry of people bumping into each ot...

3 Years Ago Sunnyvale, California. Pierre Troubleaux was staggered beyond reason. His life was just threatened and he didn't know what to do about it. What the hell was th...

Thursday, September 17 New York City Times Christopher Columbus Brings Disease to America By Scott Mason Here's a story I can't resist, regardless of the absurdity...

Monday, September 21 New York 14 Dead As Hospital Computer Fails by Scott Mason Fourteen patients died as a result of a massive computer failure this weekend at t...

September, 1982 South East Iraq Ahmed Shah lay in a pool of his own blood along with pieces of what was once another human being. The pain was intolerable. His mind expl...

Tuesday, October 13 New York COMPUTER ASSAULT CLAIMS VICTIMS by Scott Mason For the last few weeks the general press and computer media have been foretelling th...

Wednesday, November 4 The Stock Exchange, New York Wall Street becomes a ghost town by early evening with the night population largely consisting of guards, cleaning and mai...

Thursday, November 14 NASA Control Center, Johnson Space Center The voice of Mission Control spoke over the loudspeakers and into hundreds of headsets. THE GROUND LAUNCH SEQ...

Wednesday, November 25 HACKERS HAMPER HOLIDAY HELLO'S By Scott Mason As most of my readers know by now, I have an inherent suspicion of lame excuses for bureaucrati...

Sunday, November 29 Columbia University, New York The New York City Times had put the story on the 7th page. In contrast, the New York Post, in Murdoch's infinite wisdo...

Sunday, December 6 Washington, D.C. Miles Foster was busy at one of the several computers in his Washington, D.C. condo. It was necessary, on a daily basis, to stay...

Wednesday, December 9 New York The late afternoon pace of the City Room at the Times tended to be chaotic. As deadlines approached and the paper was laid out for the pr...

Monday, December 28 A/K/A Software by Scott Mason The Christmas Virus is upon is. So is the anticipated New Years Eve and New Year's Day Virus. Seems like wherever ...

Wednesday, January 6 Amsterdam, Holland Scott Mason had a theory. It didn't matter than no one else believed it, or that they thought him daffy. It worked for him. He...

Thursday, January 7 Amsterdam, Holland The following morning Scott awoke without telephone intervention by the front desk. He felt a little on the slow side, an observa- tio...

Friday, January 8 Washington, D.C. The New Senate Office Building is a moderately impressive struc- ture on the edge of one of the worst sections of Washington. Visitor...

Friday, January 8 Washington, D.C. As the hour is late, I am tempted to call a recess until tomorrow morning," Senator Merrill Rickfield said congenially from the center ...

Friday, January 8 Washington, D.C. It seemed that everyone in the world wanted to speak to Scott at once. The FBI spent an hour asking him inane questions. "Why did you he...

Monday, January 11 Washington, D.C. I don't think you're gonna be pleased," Phil Musgrave said at their early morning conclave, before the President's busy day began....

Wednesday, January 13 New York City No Privacy for Mere Citizens by Scott Mason. I learned the other day, that I can find out just about anything I want to know ...

Saturday, January 16 Tokyo, Japan Dressed as business-like on the weekend as during the week, Taki Homosoto sat at his regal techno-throne overlooking the Tokyo skyline ...

Midnight, Tuesday, January 19 Scarsdale, New York Scott Mason awaited Kirk's midnight call. Now that they had a deal, a win-win situation, Kirk and his phriends had b...

Thursday, January 21 The White House, Washington, D.C. He wanted to make them wait. The President decided to walk into the breakfast room for their early morning meeting ...

Sunday, January 24 New York City Times HARDWARE VIRUSES: A NEW TWIST By Scott Mason In conversations with the Spook, the man who claims to be the technical ge...

Monday, January 25 The White House We had a pretty good handle on parts of it," said Marvin Jacobs glibly. Phil Musgrave, Martin Royce, Henry Kennedy and Quinton Chamber...

Monday, March 22 National Security Agency He had two separate offices, each with a unique character. One ultra modern and sleek, the other befitting a country gentleman....