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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (146053)	10/25/2001 9:56:31 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I think you are missing the drift here. Locks are for honest people. Substantially less that 1% of the user base are hackers. I would estimate that more that 50% of the copies of windows 98,se,me in use are pirate copies. If this is true, then this feature alone will DOUBLE current MS o/s revenue.

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (146053)	10/25/2001 11:24:40 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

> so how long before the hacker community cracks this one? < Already been done on the beta version, and no indications that the final product is any different. I think it was on mentioned on The Register, probably all over slashdot as well. mg