Taken From The BBC

Over on the Radio 4 blog you can hear an intriguing interview  Stephen Fry conducted with Ross Anderson, Professor of Security  Engineering at Cambridge University, on the Y2K bug. Nick Baker, the  producer of In the  Beginning was the Nerd (on R4 this Saturday at 8pm), writes: The Western world, with a few notable exceptions, poured billions of  dollars into electronic pesticides to defeat the Y2K bug. Only to find  that for the most part it could have been defeated by turning the  systems off then on again. Shades of the hit C4 comedy The IT Crowd.  In reality it's the solution put forward in Stephen Fry's Archive on  Four next Saturday by Ross Anderson, Professor of Security  Engineering at Cambridge University, a world authority. Here - exclusive  to the Radio 4 blog - is the full interview Stephen conducted with Ross  on the crisis that fizzled out and the prospects of a real future digital Armageddon...

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