X-Message-Number: 19258
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:47:19 -0700
From: Scott Wakefield <>
Subject: "Swedish hacker saves history"
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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.  ...

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