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To: supercat
What happens when Microsoft decides to leak just enough details of its internal workings to allow people to write malware that takes advantage of undocumented behaviors, but not enough details to stop them?

Hacker love challeges, they would prefer to go up against Windows Vista that older OS's because it is the newest OS on the block.

20 posted on 08/06/2005 1:00:01 PM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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To: Paul C. Jesup
Hacker love challeges, they would prefer to go up against Windows Vista that older OS's because it is the newest OS on the block.

Yes, but if some money were indirectly filtered to them from Microsoft, they might hack the targets Microsoft wants them to hack.

21 posted on 08/06/2005 1:04:45 PM PDT by supercat (Sorry--this tag line is out of order.)
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