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Cleita

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2. Stating the obvious but is it possible to create hack proof systems?

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Sat Jan 3, 2015, 02:47 PM

Jan 2015

I watched the old classic "War Games" over the holiday and the way the kid got into the military computer was through a 'back door.' What if future software didn't have those accesses programmers use? I'm not that computer savvy so I wonder how doing something like that could screw things up even worse if their is no way to fix corruptions and other problems.

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