6-20-96. NYP: "Counterfeiters of a New Stripe Give Japan One More Worry." The pachinko caper echoes far beyond Japan, serving as a cautionary tale as the world moves toward digital cash, with money reduced to ones and zeros on a card or in a computer. It could be far easier to manipulate computer codes than to rob a bank or create counterfeit bills. "This is a tip-of-the-iceberg problem," said Peter G. Neumann, a computer security hustler at SRI. "You are going to put a lot of money out there and someone is going to figure out how to take it away from you." "Electronic money, digital cash, the Internet -- it's so convenient and so many people envision a dreamy future," another sec-hawker drooled. "But once you consider the security, it's quite vulnerable." http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/hustle.txt (12 kb) HUS_tle