This article from 1999 I found suggests that South Korea was worried about North Korea's preparedness for Y2K, https://www.deseret.com/1999/12/17/19480898/s-korea-worried-.... That seems to suggest that South Korea itself would have been making sure its own systems were secure.
Is it simply possible that most of their systems were newer than those in other countries, so updates weren't necessary?
There was definitely the possibility of really bad impacts on critical infrastructure. If we had all behaved like Italy then I think it could have been quite bad.
The majority of y2k work I saw on the ground was companies using it as an excuse to upgrade all their kit. I did some assessments and was asked more than once to emphasise the risk a bit more.
We'll be able to retry the same scenario but without preparation in 16 years.
Why without preparation? We all know the epoch integer will overflow on 32-bit systems in 20388
Because as it seems Y2K was a hoax (see ggp), so why should we prepare next time?
Plus, noone in charge to decide will understand the significance of such a weird date.
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Then why South Korea and Italy didn't suffer Y2K problems. And invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation.
I'd love to see a source for that.
This article from 1999 I found suggests that South Korea was worried about North Korea's preparedness for Y2K, https://www.deseret.com/1999/12/17/19480898/s-korea-worried-.... That seems to suggest that South Korea itself would have been making sure its own systems were secure.
Is it simply possible that most of their systems were newer than those in other countries, so updates weren't necessary?
Y2k wasn't a hoax but it was exploited and hyped.
There was definitely the possibility of really bad impacts on critical infrastructure. If we had all behaved like Italy then I think it could have been quite bad.
The majority of y2k work I saw on the ground was companies using it as an excuse to upgrade all their kit. I did some assessments and was asked more than once to emphasise the risk a bit more.
And also Russia , country with nuclear arsenal, did nothing for Y2K
Little reliance on Y2K impacted platforms?
Like what platforms?
I invested little to nothing in tiger remediation, and lo and behold, no tigers!
Imagine if you did invest. You would be called sucker.
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