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M$ and illegal or unethical behavior

M$ and illegal or unethical behavior

Posted Dec 3, 2003 22:05 UTC (Wed) by freethinker (guest, #4397)
In reply to: M$ and illegal or unethical behavior by freethinker
Parent article: Gentoo rsync server compromised

Hmm, on second thought, I retract that. The person or people doing the work could be caught, and even if they didn't know who hired them, just their assertion that they had been hired would be enough to raise an unholy stink.


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M$ and illegal or unethical behavior

Posted Dec 4, 2003 7:52 UTC (Thu) by jtc (subscriber, #6246) [Link]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems to me that these attacks did not do a great deal of harm (besides temporarily wasting some people's time and resources). Even if MS was slimey enough to do this, I doubt whether they would regard the reward vs the risk worthwhile.

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