| From: | Andrew Guard |
| Date: | 28 Oct 2000 at 14:35:02 |
| Subject: | Re: Our "friends" have been hacked |
--- In amigactive@e..., Alan Buxey <alanb@f...> wrote:
> hi,
>
> > Our "fiends" have had a major hacking problem.
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_993000/993933.stm
>
> :-)
>
> to quote:
>
> "Microsoft is moving aggressively to isolate the problem ..."
>
> pretty much a normal day for them then.. ;-)
>
>
> " the integrity of Microsoft source code"
>
> since when has any of their code had any kind of integrety?? :-)
>
> on a more serious note - not only does this show that trojan
viruses are
> actual more a danger than those that just delete HD's, it does show
serious
> complacency in one of the worlds largest computing company
>
> it is also very worrying...hackers have now got M$ source-code.
hackers can
> now read that to find all of the bugs and problems that the world
does not
> know because the world wasnt able to read/check M$ code...anyone
with
> Windows operating system in a business/company be afraid, be very
afraid
>
> alan
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