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 | | We have all kinds of accidents that take place in computerland, and those that happen on January 1st, people will say were caused by Y2K." Computers and their programming code are at the heart of the Year 2000 problem, over which devices that aren't sufficiently tested or repaired could misinterpret the year "00" as 1900. |
 | | That's an understandable question considering the actions that currently pass for a news-making "hack." One might think that the days of Kevin Mitnick's phone hijinks or Robert Morris's computer worm, which disrupted the operations of over 6,000 computers nationwide in 1988, are gone. |
 | | Sure, there's malignant code like the Melissa virus which struck computers earlier this year, but so many viruses rely on users to knowingly or unknowingly pass them on until they finally strike. |
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