AS MOST computer users get back to work with nothing more serious to show
from Y2K than a post-millennial hangover, Ross Anderson has good reason to feel
smug. Shortly before Christmas, the Cambridge University computer expert posted
onto the Net a report entitled: “The Millennium Bug—Reasons not to
Panic”.
His optimism appeared justified as New Scientist went to press.
There had been a series of glitches with computer systems throughout the world.
But none had serious consequences, and those countries that had spent little on
averting the bug appeared to escape just as lightly as nations such as Britain…
