Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:20:39 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> 
>> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>>> Invisible escribió:
>>>> (I never really understood why programs produce core dumps. I mean,
>>>> seriously. What chance is there of anybody *ever* deducing anything
>>>> useful from this data? 10^-78?)
>>> The original programmer with access to the sourcecode *can* deduce data
>>> from it.
>> I seriously doubt it...
> 
> I've done it, several times, even with things I'm not the original 
> programmer for but have access to the source code.

Really?

Well, it still sounds absurdly improbable to me, but I'll take your word 
for it.

Now, how about that Windoze habit of saying "The program has experienced 
an error and will be shut down. Do you want to send debugging 
information?" What do you estimate the chances are that *anybody* will 
do anything at all with the data thus sent? ;-)

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