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From: taylor@hplabsc.UUCP (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: mod.comp-soc
Subject: Re: Computers in court: dueling hackers
Message-ID: <523@hplabsc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Aug-86 20:19:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  4 20:19:57 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 5-Aug-86 05:40:34 EDT
Reply-To: tektronix!reed!omssw2!sequent!john (John Borght)
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This article is from tektronix!reed!omssw2!sequent!john (John Vander Borght)
 and was received on Mon Aug  4 17:12:59 1986
 
> I think that at base, this problem is just another statement of the
> "blind trust in computers" problem.  Yes, some people are naive about
> how much trust to place in "computer results".  Yes, we can come up with
> hundreds of scenarios where this is a danger or detriment to society.
> But the interesting thing is how to combat it, not to give zillions of
> examples of it, right?
>
> Wayne Throop      <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw

The people's "blind trust in computers" will probably be taken care of
when they see two "expert" computers giving exactly the opposite results.
This should happen real soon (judging from the results of a lot of programs
I've seen). (-;

	John Vander Borght, Software Product Support Specialist
	[ogcvax,tektronix,pur-ee,ut-sally,decwrl]!sequent!john


[What John refers to is also known as the `dueling compilers' game - in
 which users feed programs to two compilers to see if they'll ever agree
 on the output code... *chuckle*  --Dave]