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Defendant: Microsoft source code sale was a setup
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-11-11

A 27-year-old Connecticut man facing felony economic espionage charges for allegedly selling a copy of Microsoft's leaked source code for $20 says he's being singled out only because the software giant and law enforcement officials can't find the people who stole the code in the first place.

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Bottom line 2004-11-17
Anonymous
The one technical flaw in your argument is that he wasn't "selling" the source code. The investigator made a "donation" to illwill, and such donations are asked for to offset web hosting costs. As a thank you for the donation he simply provided an easily accessible link to download the partial sourc...

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