Malicious Life Podcast: The Y2K Bug Pt. 1

This transcript recounts the origins and risks of the Y2K problem, spotlighting Bob Bemer’s early advocacy for four-digit years, the economic pressures that entrenched two-digit dates, and the U.S. government’s 1968–1970 standardization that formalized them; it also covers late-1999 U.S.–Russia cooperation to prevent Y2K-related missile detection mishaps and reflects on the post-millennium reluctance to revisit the episode’s lessons.