He was reportedly involved with the tampering of a US senate election between Thomas Boles and John Edwards ; at the time the office was filled by election by the state legislature.

In fact, he writes, " the evil incident to invasion of the privacy of the telephone is far greater than that involved in tampering with the mails.

Following the 1999 – 2000 season, it was discovered that Smith was involved in a salary cap – tampering scandal involving Timberwolves executive Kevin McHale.

During this time he was involved in a controversial issue in 1994 when England captain Mike Atherton was accused of ball tampering by rubbing it with dirt from his pocket during a match against a newly returned South Africa at The Oval.

Modern observance may also include sealing cabinets and drawers which contain " Chametz " shut by using adhesive tape, which serves a similar purpose to a lock but also shows evidence of tampering.

If another sailor went through the bag, the odds were high the thief would tie the bag back using the more common reef knot, revealing the tampering, hence the name.

Two years after the 1996 Summer Olympics, FINA banned Smith for four years for tampering with her urine sample using alcohol.

The GTK is encrypted using the KEK assigned to that STA, and protects the data from tampering, by use of a MIC.

In fact, Roger's father, the Duke of New Madrid, and his ally, Lord Jackson Adula, have framed Roger, whom they believe dead, and taken the Empress captive, using a combination of cybernetic tampering, sexual slavery, and drugs to control the normally ironwilled Empress.

This category encompasses a wide variety of criminal activity including, but not limited to, tampering with ( or bypassing ) a utility meter so that the true level of consumption is understated ; leaving a hotel or restaurant or similar establishment without paying for the service ; and " turnstile jumping " or other methods of evading the payment of a fare or fee when using a public transit vehicle or entering a private facility normally requiring payment ( e. g., jumping over the fence at a fair or rock concert ).

Two years after the Atlanta Games, FINA banned Smith for four years for tampering with her urine sample using alcohol ; the testers also found traces of a metabolic precursor of testosterone, Androstenedione.

The ejectable offense may be an excessively heated or offensive argument with an umpire, malicious game play ( especially pitchers attempting to strike batters with the ball or a manager caught ordering his pitcher to do so ), illegally applying a foreign substance to or otherwise tampering with a ball, using a corked bat, charging the mound, or otherwise fighting.

Although the full extent of this tampering is not detailed, the most crippling is their pacifism — when Darhel are stressed, their bodies produce an epinephrine analogue they call tal — which unlike epinephrine, augments both physical and mental abilities.

* Thirty computer workers at the COMELEC tabulation center walk out, protesting the tampering of election results.

Along with this comes the importance of ensuring restricted access to terminals, servers, and the data center to prevent tampering.

A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company was the center of a controversy in 1992 when the company locked out hundreds of workers after the workers had rejected a contract amid accusations by management of destruction and tampering of company property and equipment.

The redundant dialer may be connected to a second phone line, or a specialized encoded cellular phone, radio, or internet interface device to bypass the PSTN entirely, to thwart intentional tampering with the phone line ( s ).

The 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal involves the use of a telemarketing firm hired by that state's Republican Party ( NHGOP ) for election tampering.

Perhaps the greatest security challenge in railway operation is preventing the tampering of manually operable switches.

INTEGRITY uses hardware memory protection to isolate and protect itself and user tasks from incorrect operation caused by accidental errors or malicious tampering.

:"( g ) Event recorder means a device, designed to resist tampering, that monitors and records data on train speed, direction of motion, time, distance, throttle position, brake applications and operations ( including train brake, independent brake, and, if so equipped, dynamic brake applications and operations ) and, where the locomotive is so equipped, cab signal aspect ( s ), over the most recent 48 hours of operation of the electrical system of the locomotive on which it is installed.

It places certain values at least beyond questioning and tampering.

Permissions protect against unauthorized tampering or destruction of information in files, and keep private information confidential from unauthorized users.

The term computer system security means the collective processes and mechanisms by which sensitive and valuable information and services are protected from publication, tampering or collapse by unauthorized activities or untrustworthy individuals and unplanned events respectively.

While in Daken's mind Xavier discovers Romulus's psychic tampering and comments that Daken's mind is even more broken than Wolverine's was.

Due to the tampering of Bastion and his Sentinels, the X-Mansion computer system Cerebro gains autonomy and seeks to destroy the X-Men by employing its knowledge of the Xavier Protocols.

Acquittal because of tainting ( threatening of witnesses, jury tampering, or perjury ) would also allow retrial.

: This can include confusing or misleading voters about how to vote, violation of the secret ballot, ballot stuffing, tampering with voting machines, destruction of legitimately cast ballots, voter suppression, voter registration fraud, failure to validate voter residency, fraudulent tabulation of results, and use of physical force or verbal intimation at polling places.

Digital signature and encryption must be applied at message creation time ( i. e. on the same device it has been composed ) to avoid tampering.

In 1995, Conté's ruling PUP party won 76 of 114 seats in elections for the National Assembly amid opposition claims of irregularities and government tampering.

Like the law abolishing the Reichsrat, this law actually violated the Enabling Act, which specifically forbade Hitler from tampering with the presidency.

Critics have objected to GMOs on several grounds, including tampering with nature, ecological concerns, economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are often subject to intellectual property law, whether food produced from GMOs should be banned or labelled, whether such food is safe, and whether GM crops are useful to address the world's food needs.

Additionally, it provides bidirectional encryption of communications between a client and server, which protects against eavesdropping and tampering with and / or forging the contents of the communication.

At the peak of the hysteria, some hospitals offered free X-rays of children's Halloween hauls in order to find evidence of tampering.

Since the early days of writing politicians, diplomats and military commanders understood that it was necessary to provide some mechanism to protect the confidentiality of correspondence and to have some means of detecting tampering.

Shula had coached the Colts the previous seven pre-merger seasons ( 1963 – 9 ) and was signed by Joe Robbie after the merger was consummated ; because the signing came after the merger the NFL's rules on tampering came into play, and the Dolphins had to give up their first-round pick to the Colts.

Loki's tampering increases Bobby's powers to such an extent that he begins to lose control of his abilities.

Botham often courted controversy and was suspended briefly in 1986 for smoking cannabis and was allegedly accused of racism and ball tampering by Imran Khan.

... Rousseau was considered to have advocated just the sort of invasive tampering with human nature which the totalitarian regimes of mid-century had tried to instantiate.

In 1885 he warmly supported the project for the reform of the House of Magnates, but on the other hand he jealously defended the inviolability of the Composition of 1867, and on 5 March 1889 in his place in the Upper House spoke against any particularist tampering with the common army.

A few scholars have questioned the passage, contending that the absence of Christian tampering or interpolation does not itself prove authenticity.

Wells has stated that the fact that Origen seems to have read something different about the death of James in Josephus than what there is now, suggests some tampering with the James passage seen by Origen.

However, these differences are usually seen as indications of the lack of tampering, given that an interpolator would have made the accounts similar.

Claire Rothschild has stated that the absence of Christian interpolations in the Josephus passage on John the Baptist can not by itself be used as an argument for its authenticity, but is merely an indication of the lack of tampering.