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To: John Mansfield who wrote (1375)	3/31/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

IRS - old article but to the point This is the 1997 discussion about the RFC (Request For Comment) by the IRS. Lost track of it; but found it accidentally. Comments by A. Trembley of MasterCard. John _________ 'Y2K -- the End is Nigh I just recently read IRS's "Request for Comments (RFC)", which solicits comments for modernizing the IRS's tax systems. This document is the first information I've seen that shows just how desperate the IRS is and how complex the IRS tax systems are. Their systems are literally incomprehensible. infowar.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1375)	4/2/1998 1:40:00 AM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

' In Singapore `nearly one-half' of financial institutions have not begun to deal with the millennium bug' ' TOP TEN STORIES Millennium bug threatens exchanges Disruption caused by the year 2000 on the global foreign exchange market could be catastrophic Disruption caused by the year 2000 on the global foreign exchange market could be catastrophic and cost many millions of dollars a day, according to services house CSC, writes Dan Sabbagh. A draft analysis this week states the millennium bug could cause a `systemic impact' on the lines of the oil price shock of 1973 - due to the impact on interbank settlement systems. CSC stated that an outright failure by a clearing house - such as Britain's CHAPS - would amount to $761 million a day. A failure by a major bank would cost $495 million a day and a failure by a group of small banks would come to a total of $281 million a day. CSC's research predicts that such failures are a real threat. `Of particular concern is the level of progress among institutions and clearing houses in Asia.' In Singapore `nearly one-half' of financial institutions have not begun to deal with the millennium bug, the report said. <snip> CSC based its research on interviews with 90 global representatives of banks, clearing houses and regulators. Highlights from the research will be made available on CSC's Web site - www.uk.csc.com - shortly. _____ webserv.vnunet.com

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1375)	5/10/1998 7:00:00 PM
From: foobert	Respond to of 9818

What the h*ll is this ..... >>VSM >>SPQE 009EC460 NSPQE 009EC3F0 DQE 009EC4E0 FL/RS 0000 SPID 251 KEY Looks like dis-assembled code to me. This is what you get if you take run an executable program file through a dis-assembler. The raw executable code is even more unrecognizable. You go through a process like this because you have to make a change to a computer program and you do not have access to the source code. The dis-assembled code shown above becomes your source code file. Once you dis-assemble an executable file, you may re-arrange it to make it more legible, then make your own modifications to it. (the label and comment columns below are added only for human comphrension) LABEL OPCODE OPERAND COMMENT ----- ------ -------- ----------- label1: VSM ; program starts here SPQE 009EC460 NSPQE 009EC3F0 DQE 009EC4E0 FL/RS 0000 SPID 251 KEY Finally once you have made your modifications, you run the modified source code through an assembler that creates a new executable program file that includes your changes. This is a worst case scenario of a remediation effort. It needs to be applied in situations where a computer program needs to be changed and the source code is not available. Generally, you resort to measures like this only in desparation situations - a better alternative is to scrap the old program and replace it with something newer.