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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. History Repeats itself by mp3LM · · Score: 0, Troll

    We've heard it before...history repeats itself.
    First Apply...and now AltaVista

    I wonder if they've stolen stuff from any other company.