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From: ags@pucc-i (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: "Hacking" made difficult?
Message-ID: <819@pucc-i>
Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 09:44:30 EST
Article-I.D.: pucc-i.819
Posted: Tue Jan 15 09:44:30 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 17-Jan-85 12:44:27 EST
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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I recently watched the first five minutes of a program called
"Wonderworks:  Hide and Seek" on the Chicago PBS channel.  The program
was fortunately fiction, not a documentary, but I passed up the last
55 minutes after I heard the following:

	"The electronic funds transfer program is protected by a
	25-digit code.  The odds of cracking the code are one in
	ten to the seventy-second power."

I suppose they COULD have been using base 759, but then there are not
enough ASCII characters to represent all the digits.
-- 
Dave Seaman			 ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags