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Microsoft hack wasn't espionage
Kevin Mitnick, special to SecurityFocus 2000-11-05

There are many reasons for a villain to crack Microsoft's network... Industrial espionage just isn't one of them.

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not all kids trade their cards ... 2000-11-06
bacano
I beleave that MS and 'his' hacker had one thing in common, they dont like to reveal their secrets.

Not all hackers like to trade their secrets, the ones that trade source code like teenagers trade baseball cards, are not hackers in the most purist way. In my point of view, they are not hackers at all, they are just kids trading cards.

Unlike some, others still think that an hacker doesnt have a name, nick, face, or anything ... he just dont exist, so he cant trade anything.

Knowing that in the past other holes on MS servers were real and exploited, and where never public, thus, public dont know those hackers. This latest (err ... not latest anymore), is just one more that probably is smarter enough for not trade his secrets. The kind that thinks that 'if others dont know, others cant turn me away'.

Or 'what you dont know, cant harm you' ... if he really is Russian, probalby is a 'nice' guy that dont like to think that others can have the same sad end like others had in the past ...

But after all, this is just one more speculation on this story =;o)

[ ]'s bacano

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