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al Qaeda Hacks XP?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the conspiracy-theories-and-bears-oh-my dept.

acaird writes "According to this article at Newbytes, members of al Qaeda may have worked for Microsoft and planted "trojans, trapdoors, and bugs in Windows XP"." This stuff screams of hoax to me, but it is showing up on the Washington Post.

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  1. As Microsoft would need terrorist help by Warvi · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Knowing Microsoft's track record, I wonder how much more damage some terrorist can add.

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  2. Sounds REALLY fishy... by turbine216 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I have a LOT of trouble believing that such things could have happened. Any reputable software vendor has a system of quality control that would make it nearly impossible for these things to slip through to the end user. Even at Microsoft (insert your favorite joke about IE here). So unless a very large number of MS employees are al Quaeda members, it seems impossible for this to have happened.

  3. Who the hell needs al Quaeda? by Surak · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Microsoft can put bugs, trojans and viruses in XP all by itself It doesn't need al Quaeda to do that at all :-)

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  4. It must be a hoax by BillyGoatThree · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Otherwise what are we to make of this statement: "...Microsoft has rigorous processes in place during the development of Windows to ensure the security and integrity of source code."



    How anybody could fall for such a transparent and obvious hoax as this is beyond me.

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  5. Next from Microsoft... by Wolfier · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A press release from Microsoft today is trying to address all the security holes and bugs of its software.

    "Apparently, all these holes and bugs are created by one terrorist member who infiltrated our company. We've always been wondering WHY all the holes are found in our software - as you know, we always try produce high quality, flawless software - and this explain where all the bugs come from. They are not our fault."

  6. Re:Where the hell is Microsoft's PR agency? by IdleMindUI · · Score: 0, Redundant
    That may be the Al-qeada plan to destroy America. make sure all MS products stop working after a certain date.

    Oh, so XP works now?