• Typewar@infosec.pub
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    One thing I’ve pondered about is the first time unix epoch reached 10 digits, 1000000000. That is 9th of September 2001, 2 days before 9/11. If the terrorists had that in mind hoping for some malfunction in systems around the world only supporting max 9 digits?

    … probably not… but coincidences are fun

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      some malfunction in systems around the world only supporting max 9 digits

      That’s not how computers work, though. They use binary so they care more about binary digits (powers of two: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc) rather than decimal digits (powers of 10: 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, etc).

      Very old systems store numbers with a fixed number of digits, but those systems don’t use Unix time.

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      I like conspiracy theories that are utter bullshit, but could conceivably be true just based on the limited information given. It makes the world more interesting.