X-Message-Number: 19258 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:47:19 -0700 From: Scott Wakefield <> Subject: "Swedish hacker saves history" References: <> This story is like cryonics. If you squint. (A lot.) The database still has all its memories. They're just locked up inside. No one can get at it, but luckily someone has preserved the bits anyway. Then, years later, someone is able to unlock the memories, and now the database is as good as new. The method the programmer used to rescue the database is, as of this writing, unknown. -- Scott http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=73&73&e=12&u=/zd/20020611/tc_zd/934839 Swedish hacker saves history Robert Lemos Tue Jun 11,12:23 PM ET A Swedish game programmer won the race to discover the password to a Norwegian history museum's database, the museum's director said Monday. The password had been lost when the database's steward died without revealing it. ... Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19258