Officials familiar with the flight recorder evidence say that despite the pilots' assertion that the aircraft was slow in responding to the controls, the flight control computers probably prevented a worse disaster by keeping the aeroplane unstalled when the pilots realized too late that they were about to crash. I am writing a Ph.D. thesis on computer-literacy education. One way in which this work differs from previous work is that it incorporates the perspectives of not only educators, but also computer professionals, the most computer- literate group in society. I will be sending several messages about computer literacy, asking for your opinions and reactions. In this case, he will also forward to me the other submissions on this topic.
All submissions are confidential.
Anything that I quote or paraphrase will be presented anonomously, unless I get explicit permission from an individual to use his or her name. You can indicate in your message the sort of work you do with computers, if you like. The newspaper De Standaard reported that a man, using a personal computer, for three months viewed Martens' electronic mail and other items, including classified information about the killing of a British soldier by the Irish Republican Army in Ostend in August. The newspaper said the man showed one of its reporters this week how he broke into the computer, using Martens' password code of nine letters, ciphers and punctuation marks. The man was asked about an alleged attempt to blackmail a computer manufacturer, but an official for Scotland Yard said that there was not enough evidence to pursue the matter.