Saturday, February 14, 2004

Release of Windows Coding Is a New Worry for Microsoft

Release of Windows Coding Is a New Worry for Microsoft: "The illicit distribution on Thursday of portions of the secret programmer's instructions for two versions of the Windows operating system poses vexing legal and security challenges for Microsoft.
Computer security experts said Friday that having even relatively small parts of the blueprints for Microsoft's Windows 2000 and Windows NT operating system as easily available reference material for potential vandals and troublemakers could complicate the company's already difficult task in securing its software."

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