that the only way you would be able to get rid of whatever access Russia has had for apparently a long time, the only way you'd be able to get rid of it is to replace all of your software. All of it. Because the allegation, which is probably pretty reasonable, is that once they had god access to all of the systems they could embed viruses in different places to be activated under different situations or open up different doors, etc. So it wouldn't matter how good you were at finding a problem because they would just open up a new door as quickly as you found it. So you pretty much have to get rid of all of it.

I wonder if we have the technology to do that. Let me flesh this out a little bit. I always get those confused. Flesh it out, right? That's the saying. So the idea is this: could you write a software application that's main purpose is to remove all the software in a company and replace it with the clean version of the same software? So in other words, could you write some kind of a master god program that would take every piece of software at IBM, delete it, and I don't know how hard you have to delete it. Maybe you have to extra delete, bleach it or something. Just get rid of all of it and reload the same fresh things. So you keep your databases so none of your data would be directly affected. So I don't think there's a problem with data. I guess I'm not that technical that I can answer that question. Would we have any issue with just a raw database? I don't know if that can hold a virus. But if you get rid of everything, just wipe everything that has any software element to it in your system, could you write one giant program that just rolled through a Fortune 500 company, took it down for an hour, it is just done for an hour, but an hour later has reloaded all of its software, rebooted in the right order, and brought everything back up? Could you do it? Is that a thing?

Yeah, let me give you a little bit of history. Do you remember when the year 2000 bug was coming? All the experts said we don't have enough time. We're in real trouble because the companies are not taking it seriously and that date is coming when year 2000 bug will hit and all computers that were designed before a certain date can't handle the year 2000 as a date and they'll all crash and the world will end. And as that was approaching and we were getting closer and closer and closer, I was saying in public, we're fine. We'll be fine.

Now here's the reason that all the experts said no, it can't be done. It's too much work. You know, if everybody worked on it full time you just couldn't get it done. We're doomed. And I said exactly the opposite. I said no, we'll be fine. What happened? What happened is we were fine. Now why is that? Well, exactly what I predicted: that it would take a long time to do it manually but it wouldn't take a long time to figure out how not to do it manually. In other words, it wouldn't take that long to write programs that would do what the humans would have to do that would take a long time. And what happened? People wrote programs that looked for these bugs and corrected them and then they ran the programs. The bugs were corrected. The year 2000 came. Bam. We're fine.

So until you could imagine that it was possible to write software that would fix, you know, universally go out there and find and fix all the bugs that you didn't even know where they were, you thought you were doomed. I think we might find a similar, maybe an industry could, a whole industry pops up. Maybe a consulting industry with some kind of technical background. And I would guess that we will probably birth an industry because of this, because of the hacks that go in and shut down your whole network and wipe it and then reload it. And you know they control the process so nothing gets out of control and they just go rescue one company at a time. I feel like that's going to be an industry really soon and should be. And I think that'll be the only answer because we should assume that people will get so far into our systems again that we'll just be right back in this situation, right? So even if we found every bug and got rid of it, it would just reproduce. I mean, even if we got them all, which is