This hacking incident was reported at the time it was discovered, back in (I think) 2001. Hackers for months had access to the Windows source code, I remember that aspect of it; Microsoft in the course of one week went through a series of denials, each one retracted and replaced by an admission of more damage. News.com, and a number of magazines carried a list of the various denials of damage, each one contradicted the one before it. For example, they initially said that hackers had breached their network but not seen the source code; then they said they were certain that none of it had been changed or replaced, later to say they couldn't prove that, etc. With 3 months of access, imagine what kind of back door someone could have inserted into that code base, which was definitely used as the basis for XP, 2003 and now Longhorn... On Feb 12, 2004, at 9:39 PM, Alan Shields wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:52:55PM -0600, Danny G Smith wrote: >> Microsoft says it has referred the attack to the US Federal Bureau of >> Investigation (FBI) and is working with the authorities to "protect >> its >> intellectual property". > > That's funny...I thought they were already working with the authorities > to protect their intellectual property (see TCPTA [or whatever it's > called now], DMCA, and recent smashings of bills encouraging open > source > use by government agencies....). > > Sorry, couldn't resist, > Alan