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Same old Microsoft..Beware XP owners

  • 20-12-2001 09:11PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7


    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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    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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