11 Jun
2002
11 Jun
'02
3:37 p.m.
After the password for accessing a Norwegian history museum's database catalog for 11,000 books and manuscripts had been lost when the database's steward died, the museum established a competition to recover it. Joachim Eriksson, a Swedish game company programmer, won the race to discover the password (ladepujd, the reverse of the name of the researcher who had created the database). How he arrived at it was not disclosed. [Source: Long-lost password discovered: Norwegian history database cracked with help from the Web, By Robert Lemos, MSNBC, 11 Jun 2002; PGN-ed] Lillie Coney, Public Policy Coordinator, U.S. Association for Computing Machinery Suite 510 2120 L Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20037 1-202-478-6124