USA Today Article -- $1 Billion Y2K Ripoff Likely

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USA Today newspaper (print edition) had today (1999-07-16) a lead article quoting Gaertner Group that hasty remediation of banking and other financial programs has led to the possiblity of those entities being ripped off for millions/billions by programmers installing "back doors" while remediating software programs. Such back doors would allow the programmers installing them the ability to siphon off funds. Let the games begin!

-- A (A@AisA.com), July 16, 1999

Answers

Yeah, I know -- I missed the earlier post re the article. Sorry.

-- A (A@AisA.com), July 16, 1999.

Probably because they didn't use "Gartner Group" as the company to fix them so Gartnaer group could be the ones to rip them off.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), July 17, 1999.

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