Ransom-ware; Grant Barrett & Sunday's New York Times

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RANSOM WARE
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Somewhat new. I don't know who has it.
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19 March 2006, New York Post, pg. 7:
A new Internet hazard known as "ransom-ware" is hitting personal computers,
scrambling users' files and leaving a ransom note demanding money to undo the
damage.
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(GOOGLE GROUPS)
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    _#And  now: ransomware_
(http://groups.google.com/group/alt.society.liberalism/browse_thread/thread/ac0149551de7893c/b7064a619cedf869?lnk=st&q="ransom+w
are"&rnum=10&hl=en#b7064a619cedf869)
... anti-virus firms this week  were updating protective software for
companies and consumers
to guard  against this type of attack, which experts dubbed  "ransom-ware ...

_alt.society.liberalism_
(http://groups.google.com/group/alt.society.liberalism?lnk=sg&hl=en)  - May 25 2005, 8:09 am by 1646 Dead - 1 message - 1  author
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GRANT BARRETT & SUNDAY'S NEW YORK TIMES
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Grant Barrett seems to have channeled Sunday's New York Times.
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Check his Double-Tongued Word Wrester, and the latest word is "stork
parking." Not to be missed is the front page of Sunday's Metro section, pg.  29,
"When the Stork Brings Something Extra: A Good Parking Spot" by Peter  Applebome.
Grant's not mentioned in the story, but it's a nice  coincidence.
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Move to the City section and check out, on pg. 6, "New York Up Close"  by
Jake Mooney, "The True Story of the 'Fedders' Curse":
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"Fedders houses," as defined in a posting a year ago by the online slang
dictionary doubeltongued.org, are the kind of cheaply made structures that have
through-the-wall air-conditioners with the manufacturer's name visible to the
outside.

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