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Re: [Full-disclosure] alert: the 111111 bug



--On July 4, 2005 12:03:02 AM +0100 lsi <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For this customer 11/11/11 in the date field means, don't process this record, which will obviously cause problems with legitimate transactions on that date.

I suspect using a new field to flag a state, instead of "special"
data, would have been more appropriate.

Not to worry. The 11th of November, 2011 is a Saturday. No one will be working that day. :-)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/
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