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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: NickSE who wrote (7398)	7/29/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

Meeting of the minds zdnet.com

To: NickSE who wrote (7398)	7/29/1999 7:17:00 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Experts warn of new Y2K threat: the hired help tampabayonline.net WASHINGTON (AP) - Some programmers hired to fix Year 2000 problems may be quietly installing malicious software codes to sabotage companies or gain access to sensitive information after the new year, two top government computer security experts warned Thursday. Michael Vatis, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, said experts hired by U.S. companies to fix their computers can secretly install ''trap doors'' - ways to let them gain access later - or add malicious codes, such as a logic bomb or time-delayed virus that could disrupt systems. ''While systems have been and will continue to be extensively tested, the probability of finding malicious code is extremely small,'' agreed Richard Schaeffer, director of the Defense Department's Infrastructure and Information Assurance program. [.....]