Nope, they started in 2003. The Splunk bug was a little misleading. The problem was if you were sending logs to it that used a two-digit date it wouldn't read them right after the date rolled. If everything was using four-digit dates there is no problem. The fix was just a tweak to the regex in a date parsing xml file.

I was a sales engineer for a company that sold software that managed the Opal SED's. We knew, and told, customers that Sleep mode completely bypassed the drive authentication. Our software disabled Sleep mode in Windows and forced Hibernate instead because of this. It's been 4-5 years at this point so who knows if that's still the case. My point is though this is less "discovery" as much as a known limitation that anyone doing a POC or asking good questions in a demo would have know about.