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Hackers Attack Iraq's Vulnerable Computers
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| It is his unit's lone computer, highlighting the country's vulnerability to a
| community of Iraqi hackers defacing websites and attempting to hack into
| sensitive internal networks.
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| Iraq's government is engaged in a bloody struggle against al-Qaeda, and its
| computers make a prime target for global terror networks that have added
| hacking to their arsenal.
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| "We could have the most powerful anti-hacking force in the world, but we'd
| still have no computers, so we couldn't do anything," says Ali Hussein, one
| of 12 computer science graduates added to the cybercrime team last
| month. "The government thinks about guns, tanks and raiding houses. Hackers
| just aren't a priority."
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http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5685746
Related:
James Allchin
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| In relation to the issue of sharing technical API and protocol
| information used throughout Microsoft products, which the
| states were seeking, Allchin alleged that releasing this
| information would increase the security risk to consumers.
|
| "It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is
| also implicated by the efforts of hackers to break into
| computing networks. Computers, including many running Windows
| operating systems, are used throughout the United States
| Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United
| States in Afghanistan and elsewhere."
|
| In May 2004, Judge J. Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to
| investigate Burst.com's claim that, in 2000, Allchin ordered
| Microsoft employees to destroy email after 30 days and not to
| archive their email, suggesting that this deletion policy
| might be an effort to eliminate material that would later be
| damaging in court. This case was settled out of court in March
| 2005, with Microsoft agreeing to pay Burst.com $60 million
| for nonexclusive rights to Burst.com's media player software.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin
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