Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags 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 Lines: 13 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