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Ex-Microsoft domain buyer's restitution in dispute
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| The sentencing date for Carolyn Gudmundson, the former Microsoft domain buyer
| who earlier this year pleaded guilty to stealing money from the company, has
| been delayed for a third time, to July 18.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/142417.asp?source=rss
Hacker Launches Botnet Attack via P2P Software
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| A 19-year-old hacker is agreeing to plead guilty to masterminding a botnet to
| obtain thousands of victims' personal data in an anonymous scheme a federal
| cybercrime official described Friday as the nation's first such attack in
| which peer-to-peer software was the "infection point."
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/hacker-launches.html
Windows: so easy to crack that even teens can do it.
Related:
"I have mentioned before the "stacked panel". Panel discussions naturally favor
alliances of relatively weak partners - our usual opposition. For example,
an "unbiased" panel on OLE vs. OpenDoc would contain representatives of the
backers of OLE (Microsoft) and the backers of OpenDoc (Apple, IBM, Novell,
WordPerfect, OMG, etc.). Thus we find ourselves outnumbered in almost
every "naturally occurring" panel debate.
A stacked panel, on the other hand, is like a stacked deck: it is packed with
people who, on the face of things, should be neutral, but who are in fact
strong supporters of our technology. The key to stacking a panel is being able
to choose the moderator. Most conference organizers allow the moderator to
select the panel, so if you can pick the moderator, you win. Since you can't
expect representatives of our competitors to speak on your behalf, you have to
get the moderator to agree to having only "independent ISVs" on the panel. No
one from Microsoft or any other formal backer of the competing technologies
would be allowed – just ISVs who have to use this stuff in the "real world."
Sounds marvelously independent doesn't it? In fact, it allows us to stack the
panel with ISVs that back our cause. Thus, the "independent" panel ends up
telling the audience that our technology beats the others hands down. Get the
press to cover this panel, and you've got a major win on your hands."
-- Source: Microsoft
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071023002351958
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