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To: Kashish King who wrote (6653)	1/12/1998 8:08:00 AM
From: LKO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

As far as security is concerned, I don't think anybody questions whether Microsoft is sincere, it's just that they are sincerely screwed up. Maybe they are :-). But security has many facets. You are probably referring to long term design issues with the security models. Reading the details of this security attack on SI, I would not gloat or present this as a "Microsoft OS vs others" issue. This specif one is from the kind of attacks which have been successfull against Unix machines also in the past and it is good to see that hackers have discovered a new platform to entertain themselves :-). I expect this to be a short-term bug which will get fixed in a hurry and will cost some engineers at Microsoft sleepless nights.