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microsoft hacked

2000-10-28 01:37:36+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Microsoft hacked. Where to start? I mean, first off, they're running NT, right? And they were cracked? Well, duh. From the press reports the intruders must have carefully avoided shipping code, Microsoft[Wiki] spokesman Ricardo Adame said "It appears the hacker was able to view some source code under development", so they may have actually gotten something useful. Those wags at Need To Know posit "so that's why the Kursk sank", and raise some interesting questions about trust of received binaries...

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