"Andreas Jellinghaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fragte:

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http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp

May 13, 2002 
Allchin: Disclosure May Endanger U.S.
By  Caron Carlson 

      A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing 
information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. 
war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so 
flawed it could not be safely disclosed.

      The bold statements and candid admissions were part of Jim Allchin's testimony 
during two days in court here before Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who is hearing the 
case of nine states and the District of Columbia seeking stricter penalties for 
Microsoft's antitrust behavior.

      Allchin, group vice president for platforms at Microsoft, was the final 
executive lined up to defend the Redmond, Wash., software developer. Like company 
Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates before him, Allchin highlighted the 
security problems he foresaw that could result from technical information disclosure 
requirements sought by the nonsettling states.

      "It is no exaggeration to say that the national security is also implicated by 
the efforts of hackers to break into computing networks," Allchin testified. 
"Computers, including many running Windows operating systems, are used throughout the 
United States Department of Defense and by the armed forces of the United States in 
Afghanistan and elsewhere."
     

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