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To: pmcw who wrote (31183)4/21/2000 3:17:00 PM
From: Joe S Pack  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
If I am in SUNW's PR department this what I will do.
Or All SUNW longs here and MSFT haters can do a favour in contacting SUNW's IR department to do something along this line.

This suggestion is based on the recent deliberate security hole planted by Microsoft in its product to gain backdoor access to web sites.


Microsoft Admits Code in Software

By MICHAEL J. MARTINEZ, AP Business Writer

SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) today said that a security flaw in its Internet software,
reportedly thought to have been deliberately placed there by company engineers, was simply the result of old software code.

Scott Culp, a manager for Microsoft's security response team, said the company discovered that the 5-year-old piece of code
inadvertently gave certain users access to multiple Web site pages housed on the same server computer.

However, Culp denied reports that the hole was deliberately placed there by Microsoft employees.

Culp told The Associated Press that the only deliberate act by Microsoft engineers was
substituting certain file names with the phrase, ``Netscape engineers are weenies!' - a reference
to Microsoft's arch-rival for Internet software.

Source
dailynews.yahoo.com

Here are my suggestions:

1) SUNW should make public aware of this by taking ad spots in all major news media and claim that they cannot trust MSFT to have trusted system even if they can build reliable system.

2) They should also raise a suspecious flag about MSFT may have gained access to web sites using this planted security hole to gain competitive information.

3) Raise the same fear by contacting foreign companies and government agencies that use MSFT servers. This is a segment where SUNW can sell more servers and kill MSFT's growth.

4) Last not the least, ask their legal team to contact and help other lawyers to go after Microsoft to sue and recover potential damages that might have occured. Here you need at least one proof that MSFT logged into some competitors web site. Of course they could have completely whiped their trace.

When enemy is down that is the time to finish him off.

-Nat
PS:Neither long on MSFT nor SUNW. I am not a lawyer.
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