By a strange coincidence, I just happened to
stumble upon this: http://funnies.paco.to/content/view/92/

So I thought I'd bring it to your attention. :)
(charliek .: idly prodding the mediocrity envelope :., Sat 26 Sep 2009, 13:33, 3 replies)

Can't Be Arsed To Check
But that has my *cough* BULLSHIT *cough* reflex going off.

Not having a pop at you - just the story.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sat 26 Sep 2009, 13:43, closed)

Yeah, can't be true
Although this did happen:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaat_al_Muslimeen_coup_attempt
(DrBurkstrom, Sat 26 Sep 2009, 14:08, closed)

it's almost true...
www1.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/internet/bullet.html

Bullet-proof security
4/11/97
David,

I worked at SuperMac at the time this situation occured. This story is mostly true, but whoever wrote it added some embellishments to the story. We never caught the call on tape, we didn't really know that the combination to the lock was for the armoury, there was no gunfire in the background, we didn't verify the location of the phone call thru the phone company. Basically they called us several days in a row asking for a back door into the Sentinel program and each time they were told the truth that there is no back door into the program. When we asked them where the person was who knew the password, we were told that they were "unavailable". Over a period of several days they talked to several people in the department - but I never spoke to them directly. At this time I don't remember who actually spoke to them, but there were several engineers.

David Simpson
UMAX Computer Corporation Product Support
(Colonel Panic, Sun 27 Sep 2009, 21:33, closed)