24th February 2004, 8:35 AM
Technology is irrelevent with this though. They were just as capable of doing what you ask back then with Secret as they are today. So, if you didn't mind then, why now?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)