SOME bright hacker discovered something very surprising on a set of floppy disks issued by the Provisional Airport Authority (PAA) in connection with contract number 302.
This is the $5 billion contract to build the new airport's main passenger terminal, and the PAA issued lots of technical information in the form of a stack of floppy disks, as it usually does.
What the authority doesn't usually issue is the detailed information it uses to prepare its own internal estimates on the job. Not deliberately, anyhow.
What the hacker discovered, probably with techniques more usually used for giving players an infinite number of lives in computer games, was that by typing in 'EST' when the software asks for a password, this information pops onto the screen.
Now, don't get the idea that this was a bungle. Indeed Clinton Leeks, airport spokesman and the Voice of Chek Lap Kok, explicitly told us it was not a bungle.
'I actually would describe it is an irrelevance,' he said.