In the processoflisteningandretainingallof thatinformation, the supervisorbecame possibly the mostknowledgeablepersonin resolving complexbankingsystemsissuesat the company.
The first confirmed victim - 46-year-old security expert Paul Thomas Morgan - was named in a statement by the family previously released via the Foreign Office, while 59-year-old planning manager Kenneth Whiteside, from Glenrothes, Fife and systemssupervisor Garry Barlow, 49, from Liverpool have been named as victims by relatives.
"Up until that point, every computer was one of a kind, " says George Gray, a systems programming supervisor at the Georgia Department of Administrative Services, who also writes a Univac newsletter.
Unable to act as an ongoing supervisor of Asia's financial systems, all it can do is demand reforms that may or may not be carried through (though some, such as opening the region's banks to foreign competition, will be harder to reverse than others).