by Myles Mellor
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13 Rich layer
15 “Could be better”
18 Slice of the ___
20 Domain naming system that the US government
has controlled for many years and is giving up
control in Oct 2016
21 Internet laughter letters
22 Part of RAM
24 Picks a candidate
27 Resist
30 Courage
32 Excellent, slangily
33 Symbol for atomic number 18
34 Itis used in some security scans
35 Of England’s oldest university
37 Alternatively
38 Maximum level
39 Greek island where scenes from “For Your
Eyes Only” were filmed
40 Balance-sheet “plus”
43 It is hailed on the street
45 Investors’ expectations
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Answers on page 58
ACROSS
1 Slang term for something undeniably important
and paralyzingly dull
3 Standards
8 Measure of printing resolution, for short
10 Incentive
12 Author of the 2001 book, “Code,” and founder
of Creative Commons
14 Important qualification for information security
professionals
16 That, in Spanish
17 Abbr. on a book’s spine
18 Criticize harshly
19 Hard-to-decide predicaments
23 Writer of “Runaround,” where he introduced the
Three Laws of Robotics, dealing with ethical
choices for automatons
25 Programmer’s stock-in-trade
26 See 7 down
28 Ethical
29 Novelist, __ Carre
30 Understand, in a way
31 Fight back against
32 Faultless
33 Skill
34 “The God of Small Things” novelist Arundhati
36 ____ and don’ts
38 Important qualification to be able to relate
security issues to risk
40 Apogee
41 Team on a national level that responds to cyber
security incidents
42 Add up
44 Never do today what you can do tomorrow
46 They should be included with any text in
a manual
DOWN
1 Easily influenced
2 Technology critical to Uber
3 Canceled, as a mission, 2 words
4 Work earning extra pay, abbr.
5 Boundary
6 Unit of potential
7 Idea or custom held to be above criticism, goes
with 26 across
8 Medical school graduate
9 Term originated by Ann Cavoukian relating
to taking into account privacy during the
engineering process, 3 words
10 Inappropriate name
11 Family of syntax elements similar to a
programming language, abbr.
