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IP: Wired News: Prisoners Await Y2K Day
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 12:47:46 -0400
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:44:33 -0700 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Spencer Ante <seante () earthlink net> Dave, This is an investigative feature I worked on for a few weeks. Think your readers might be interested in it. -- Spencer For full story go to: http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15627.html Prisoners Await Y2K Day by Spencer Ante (seante () earthlink net) 10:30 a.m. 15.Oct.98.PDT Among the more outlandish scenarios envisioned by Year 2000 doomsayers is that the millennium bug will crash prison security systems and open the razor-wire gates, setting loose untold numbers of violent and dangerous offenders. "People joke about doors flying open but it's a very distinct possibility," said Dr. Michael Harden, an information technology manager for 20 years and author of a study that examined the impact of Y2K on embedded computer systems. "If a prison is defined by its ability to control inmates and all these systems break down, a prison ceases to become a prison and it becomes a hotel." . . . Copyright © 1994-98 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.
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