Mostly a lot of work got things fixed. But also, around 2000 society wasn't nearly as automated as it is now. I'm sure it would have caused major outages if not

Mostly a lot of work got things fixed. But also, around 2000 society wasn't nearly as automated as it is now. I'm sure it would have caused major outages if nothing had been done but whole continents wouldn't have starved :) If the same thing were to happen tomorrow then yes, shit would really hit the fan. Luckily IT is no longer the cowboy landscape it used to be. Sure there's still a lot of messing around but it's not like in the late 90s. I worked for a major company that had every laptop's administrator password set to <simple word>123 . That sort of stuff. I'm kinda surprised that didn't lead to really major hacks.