cyber-"terrorism"?

[David Hansen]

On 19 Sep 2002 at 11:18, Owen Lewis wrote:

> The
> third, designed in 1994, demonstrated under test a small Y2K problem
> (it would list post 1/1/2000 dates before pre 1/1/2000 dates).

You have reminded me of the one I forgot. The FTP software I use does 
this. It's not a big problem and is much better than using the 
bloated modern version of the same software. It's much the same as 
kettles, no matter how fancy they are all they do is boil water.

> Well, just a couple that come to mind as typical. Every business
> customer of every bank received a circular requiring a return to be
> made to their bank(s) that nothing dreadful would happen to their
> business on 1/1/2000.

My business didn't.

> This was fatuous. Moreover, unless the bank(s)
> were substantial creditors of a business it was impertinent.

They would have got a short response from me, as did anyone else who 
asked. I simply directed them to a statement on our web site that 
listed the current state of play.


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