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Re: MS dirty tricks that were never revealed ..

__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Saturday 17 February 2007 13:50 \__

> 'Even though there was a corporate policy in place that any *.pst was to be
> excluded from backup capture, the effort failed. Not only did the Backup
> Exec software fail to filter out those pst files, but some of the involved
> blue badges (Microsoft employees) intentionally disguised their mail files
> so that they would not be recognized and included in the nightly backups'
> 
> 'Back about two years ago when the judge told MS to cough up the rest of
> the emails that was supposed to have floated around between MS execs that
> discussed the Burst relationship .. And then THE TAPES DISAPPEARED'
> 
> http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_1.html
> 
> http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/02/microsoft_dirty_tric_4.html
> 
> 'At Burst's request, Microsoft had provided all its internal e-mail
> messages .. when they put those messages in chronological order they
> noticed something odd: there were no messages from the 35 weeks period
> during which the two companies were in discussions'
> 
>
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/gmsv/6682208.htm

If I recall correctly, Gates has an assistant who deletes all his E-mails
that are older than 7 days. What does Gates have to hide? Does that means
that Gates chases the recipients of the messages as well? A new corporate
policy says that /all/ E-mails older then 6 months will be erased unless set
aside for a purpose. Gates also has human assistants to filter his E-mail
account, but that's another story* ...

What's the difference between Microsoft and Enron? Microsoft destroys
evidence.

* Bill Gates: Why I Hate Spam

,----[ Quote ]
| But spam is worse than irritating. It is a drain on business productivity,
| an increasingly costly waste of time and resources that clogs
| corporate networks and distracts workers...
`----

http://tinyurl.com/8ne8o (Microsoft.com, from WSJ)

Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December 

,----[ Quote ]
| "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
| botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
| of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
| harness more than a million computers around the world and use
| them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
| change."
`----

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
http://tinyurl.com/39zfap


Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

,----[ Quote ]
| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
`----

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/

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