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Re: Microsoft engaging with hackers

  • Subject: Re: Microsoft engaging with hackers
  • From: Hadron Quark <qadronhuark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 13:38:38 +0200
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> __/ [ Roy Culley ] on Saturday 07 October 2006 10:37 \__
>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/5413792.stm
>> 
>>     In a few weeks time Microsoft is expected to launch Vista, its new
>>     operating system, and in January we will all get to play with the
>>     finished version. But how safe will this brave new world be?
>> 
>>     Given the number of attacks Windows usually attracts it is not
>>     surprising that Microsoft has been speaking to anyone they think
>>     can help.
>> 
>>     A team from Microsoft headquarters went to Malaysia for Asia's
>>     biggest gathering of hackers - not to confront the enemy - but to
>>     throw the hackers a party.
>
> It gets worse. Microsoft feeds them as well.
>
> Microsoft Secures Vista With LSD

I'm surprised they didnt just steal the Linux code....
-- 
As usual, this being a 1.3.x release, I haven't even compiled this
kernel yet.  So if it works, you should be doubly impressed.
		-- Linus Torvalds, announcing kernel 1.3.3

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