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Microsoft Employee Allegedly Hacked AltaVista

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stolen-code-writes-itself dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Seattle PI has a story about Microsoft employee who worked on the MSN Search initiative having allegedly broken into AltaVista computers and stolen prorietary technology. However, the illegal break-in happened before he was hired by Microsoft. The question is, did Microsoft know anything about it? How much code was being written into MSN Search?"

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  1. Re:/. readers wets pants, reaches for new Depends. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you still need a gmail account?

    I'm guessing that your username is your real name, so just leave your email address here and I'll send you one. Try to do this ASAP, as I am going out later this afternoon.

    -geoff