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To: sandintoes who wrote (16580)	10/28/2000 2:50:20 PM
From: Bargain Hunter	Read Replies (2) of 62590

Microsoft embarrassed twice by hackers Seattle, Washington--October 27, 2000--There were red faces at Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) this morning when they revealed that hackers had broken into their software development servers and copied the source code for Microsoft's key products. But those faces were much brighter red a few hours later when the hackers anonymously posted the results of their efforts on the Internet. Microsoft executives had done their best to play down the intrusion by pointing out that the hackers had not destroyed any source code, and would not be able to do serious harm to Microsoft even if they posted copies of the source code on the Internet. But within hours after the initial reports of the intrusion, the hackers had used the Microsoft source code to fix a number of long-standing problems in Windows and Internet Explorer and created a special download web site for users wishing to download the corrected files. A spokesman at the Electronic Frontier Foundation said that they had received anonymous email, allegedly from the hackers, stating in part "Microsoft Corporation has shown itself to be unwilling or unable to fix bugs in a timely manner. We have decided to give them a hand. We hope that the users of Microsoft products will learn how easy it is for competent programmers to fix software problems. We urge everyone to contact Microsoft and demand that they post their source code on the web so that all programmers can help fix problems and submit the results to Microsoft. We believe that everyone should have access to reliable software, not just Unix users." A Microsoft spokesman was unavailable for comment, but sources confirmed that the hackers' site (OpenMicrosoft.org) had been shut down by their Internet Service Provider after a call from Microsoft's lawyers.

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