> I'm sorry but how does that story not smells like complete bullshit to anyone reading this?

Because it strokes the anti-establishment anti-intellectual and anti-bureaucracy zones all at once, and a lot of nerds (with love) are contrarians. Us software guys like nothing better than a story about how a smart ass with a computer undid a problem seemingly created by institutions out of whole cloth.

I'm calling absolute 100% bullshit.