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Same old Microsoft..Beware XP owners

blackstar · 2001-12-20 20:11:15

it seems our old friends are at it again. latest MS OS (the most secure ever!!) Win XP has been found to be just as open to hacks as anything else before it. washington post article

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20-12-2001 9:11pm

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it seems our old friends are at it again. latest MS OS (the most secure ever!!) Win XP has been found to be just as open to hacks as anything else before it.

washington post article

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#2 21-12-2001 7:35pm
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Maiffret and his researchers demonstrated the flaws for The Associated Press by hacking into a reporter's laptop running Windows XP from 2,300 miles away and successfully instructing the computer to connect automatically several times to the Web site for the National Security Agency, the government's super-secret spy agency.

Classic.

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