Re: Y2K trojans, and outsourcing...

[Patrick Oonk <patrick () pine nl>]

On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 11:22:17PM -0400, Shappard, Richard, A (Rich) wrote:
> the only trojans that the reporters at nbc know anything about come in foil
> packages.  if you rely on the lamestream media for your technology news
> you're in deep trouble.
>
> did they happen to provide any references to this rumor?
>
>
>               The national news for NBC ran an interesting topic tonight;
>
>               Estimating that some company/industry faces a loss potential
> of a billion
>               or more at least, due to a backdooring trojan inserted by
> one or more
>               consultants brought in to fix the Y2K problem...
>
>               Thanks,
>
>               Ron DuFresne

Read more about it at: 
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf611.htm

Please use established standards when quoting
earlier posts.

        patrick

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