cyber-"terrorism"?

[Peter Mitchell]

Owen Lewis wrote:
> 
> 
> AFAIK, globally, there was no recorded incident of a catastophic system
> failure - or even a serious parametric failure - occasioned by Y2K. But
> perhaps your experience was different?


Quite a few local failures were reported. I know of at least one
hospital admin system that stopped allowing appointment bookings.

In one particularly nasty case, the maternity clinic system at a
Sheffield hospital miscalculated mothers' ages and failed to order
amnios for mothers in the highest-risk group. When the bug was
discovered, 150-odd women - by now well advanced in pregnancy - had to
be recalled for urgent amnios. 

At least four Down's babies were born as a direct result of the Y2K bug,
and at least two women had to have distressingly late terminations. The
other 150 were merely scared out of their wits for a while.

--
Pete Mitchell