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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. Code review by Oily+Tuna · · Score: 1, Troll

    Do Microsoft let new employees check code into their products without a code review?

    I thought not.

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    1. Re:Code review by R.Caley · · Score: 1, Troll
      Do Microsoft let new employees check code into their products without a code review?

      How else do you explain Outlook Express?

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  2. Re:not as easy as you might think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hmm. Im porting this anonymously for obvious reasons, but the larger the company and the larger the codebase, the easier this sort of thing becomes. Some software also tends to have certain areas which are very active in development and other areas (eg - backwards compatibility cruft) which often goes untouched for years. A company who say has a large codebase which contains lots of legacy code for compatibility reasons would make the easiest targer.
    Note: I said easiest target, not an neccesarily an easy target.

    This threas is likely to generate lots of posts like "well if we had the source, this would be impossible". Moderators: before you write these off as "linux zealots" and send them to -1 flamebait, please take a moment to try and find a hole in their argument first.

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  3. Re:It turns out... by dhamsaic · · Score: 1, Troll

    DUDE!

    YOU are a fucking pimp. That is all there is to it.

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