The point being that it assuredly is trivial, but also potentially a gaping hole left open across a wide array of software.<p>In these sorts of situations, as with the Y2K bug, the problem is more often the product of social circumstances than technical circumstances.<p>Nonetheless, this doesn&#x27;t prevent technical adversaries from preying upon the flaw, and taking advantage of social patterns of behavior, such as the casual tendency to presume barcodes are intrinsically safe.