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



--On Wednesday, July 06, 2005 14:31:17 -0500 Ron DuFresne <dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Paul Schmehl wrote:

--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.  :-)

It was a joke. A *joke*. Did anyone *seriously* think I actually looked it *up*?


See the smiley????

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