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Tamper

To meddle, alter, or improperly interfere with something; to make changes or corrupt, as in tampering with the evidence.

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Lewis Greenberg, director of Michigan State University's computer lab, which investigates hacking incidents on the East Lansing, Mich., campus, said that serious damage by computer tamperers is rare.

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* It can be progressively upgraded to stay ahead of high-tech counterfeiters and tamperers.

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* Program tamperers. Using shareware (noncommercially distributed software) brought in from the outside and sharing commercial software within the firm make many law offices vulnerable to attack by computer viruses or "Trojan horse" programs created by malicious or mischievous programmers.(5) When users pass programs from machine to machine, the danger of picking up an "infection" increases radically.