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Viva cyber warriors!(Y2K planning)(Brief Article)

The Public Manager: The New Bureaucrat

| December 22, 1999 | Weiss, Paul T. | COPYRIGHT 1999 Bureaucrat, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

In any case, I applaud the work done by John Koskinen and others who awakened us to the possible great harm that could have occurred had we not taken action to squash the Y2K bug before it could inflict significant damage. Of course, he did not fight this battle alone. Thousands of cyber warriors from the federal, state, and local levels of government, and private sector businesses and associations, large and small, cooperated with him in this unprecedented effort. They coordinated their efforts across sectors and international borders. These ...

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