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I'm sure the legions of MS/Gates haters will love your comments, but it's
puzzling why you would make an association between MS and someone who would
intentionally attempt to hack your PC for whatever nefarious reasons might
be lurking in their evil mind --
Any high school or college student with a few programming courses under his
belt could (and might) attempt a mission such as the one represented --
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At 01:01 PM 06/03/2002 -0700, Alex Matulich wrote:
>Ron Augustine wrote:
> >It's an interesting concept that will likely capture the imagination of
> >some-- but it's also worthwhile considering that any software that you
> >willfully accept onto your PCs may be doing something that you're not fully
> >aware of and wouldn't permit if you were cautious enough to consider
> >potential consequences in advance.
>
>I think this is more of a concern with proprietary Microsoft
>software than public-domain (often open source since it runs on unix
>systems) software.
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> ,|___ Alex Matulich
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