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To: wooden ships who wrote (5587)	6/19/1998 10:29:00 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 42834

The fear is the havoc a concerted few of this latter group could wreak if they decided to build malicious programming code into the Y2K software patches. Truman, why wait for the Y2K bug? I am a small-fry when it comes to programming, but it is easy to do anytime. I've heard even the most secure code often has "back-doors" to let those that wrote it bypass the security incase the code owners mess up and need help fixing it. My highschool bought a "computer" back in 1973 or '74 and my senior yr in '75 I had an independent study math class where my task was to learn to use the computer (old HP 9836 single line display calculator - you could actually type in a line of code and review it one line at a time). Anyway, to show off, I "programmed" it to reject my attendance card so I could cut class, have a teacher submit an attendance card and their software would do "if 'Kirk Lindstrom' go to next card" rather than list my name as not in class." Life was sure nice before security! The funniest story is the old movie where Richard Pryor takes all the rounded off cents from taxes on paychecks that vanish due to rounding and puts them into his bank account. regards Kirk out