At 12:21 PM -0400 4/14/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB955657934787818042.htm
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>April 14, 2000
>
>Microsoft Acknowledges Its Engineers
>Placed Security Flaw in Some Software
>
>By TED BRIDIS
>Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
>Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Thursday that its engineers
>included in some of its Internet software a secret
>password -- a phrase deriding their rivals at Netscape
>as "weenies" -- that could be used to gain illicit
>access to hundreds of thousands of Internet sites
>world-wide.
And in a follow-up piece:
>April 28, 2000
>
>Security Experts Who Found Microsoft Security Hole Face Imprisonment
>for Violating Digital Millennium Copyright Act
By TED BRITIST
Staff Reporter of THE SMALL WHEAT JOURNAL
Federal prosecutors intend to charge the two men who illegally looked
at Microsoft's "Front Page" software and thereby discovered a
security hole.
"This is a clear violation of the laws against looking at, or
"reverse-engineering," software," said Tacoma-based prosecutor Fred
Fouqet. "The reason the Digital Millennium Copyright Act received so
much corporate support was precisely to stop these cyber-terrorists
from looking at products and reporting on their flaws."
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
"Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
