The Real reason of the Y2K commitiee??

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IN SESSION: Congress Y2K Committee May Outlive the Bug By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 13, 1999; Page A25

It's back to the future. The year 2000 computer glitch may become a faded memory after January, but that doesn't mean the Senate's special committee on the Y2K problem plans to disband any time soon.

The committee's chairman, Sen. Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah), suggested last week that the panel might shift its focus to examining the risks American business and government computers face from electronic attacks by terrorists and hostile foreign powers. The panel had been established to monitor public and private progress in preventing critical computer systems from crashing or otherwise malfunctioning because they read a two-digit date code "00" as 1900, not 2000.

Studying the Y2K issue, Bennett said in a speech at the National Press Club, made him realize "how significantly damaging it could be to our economy to have all of the computers fail by accident. What hit me was, 'What happens if they fail on purpose? What is our vulnerability to those . . . who would use the dependence that we have on computers as an opportunity to attack us?' "

Bennett said he and committee Vice Chairman Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) likely would hold a hearing on the issue soon.

"We've learned that Y2K is not only preparing for the here and now, and for the immediate challenge of January 1st, it has also taught us things about the Information Age in which we have entered, and the whole new world in which we will live for a long time to come," Bennett said.

I knew that they would find a way to spy on citizens.

Who is watching the watchers???

-- dragoneyez (dragoneyez@mindspring.com), September 13, 1999

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Got encryption?

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), September 13, 1999.

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