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Looks like MS are l33t too.

  • 14-04-2000 7:47pm
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    MS Servers Leave Back Door Open

    8:00 a.m. Apr. 14, 2000 PDT
       
    Microsoft acknowledged its engineers included a secret password in some of its Internet software that could be used to gain access to websites globally, the Wall Street Journal said Friday.

    The article said the manager of Microsoft's security-response center Steve Lipner "acknowledged the online-security risk" and said such a backdoor password is against the company's policy. The employees had not yet been identified.

    There have been no reports that the alleged security flaw has been exploited, the article said.

    The computer code, part of which was the comment that Netscape rivals "are weenies," was discovered by two security experts.
    Lipner said in the article that the software giant will warn the largest website providers in the U.S. directly about the flaw.

    A Microsoft spokesman was not immediately available for comment.


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  • #2
    m1RV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 359 ✭✭m1RV


    L33t indeed.
    << Arf Arf >>


  • #3
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    its just relevant to frontpage 98 afaik.


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