Hackers, Meet Microsoft

Mz6 writes "The random chatter of several hundred Microsoft engineers filled the cavernous executive briefing center recently at the company's sprawling campus outside Seattle. Within minutes after their meeting was convened, however, the hall became hushed. Hackers had successfully lured a Windows laptop onto a malicious wireless network. 'It was just silent,' said Stephen Toulouse, a program manager in Microsoft's security unit. 'You couldn't hear anybody breathe.' The demo was part of an extraordinary two days in which outsiders were invited into the heart of the Windows empire for the express purpose of exploiting flaws in Microsoft computing systems. The event, which Microsoft has not publicized, was dubbed 'Blue Hat' -- a reference to the widely known 'Black Hat' security conference, tweaked to reflect Microsoft's corporate color."

Comments

Re:Hey!

[CyberDave]

Mr. Pink: How about if I'm Mr. Purple? That sounds good to me, I'll be Mr. Purple.

Joe: You're not Mr. Purple. Some guy on some other job is Mr. Purple. You're Mr. Pink!

Mr. White: Who cares what your name is?

Mr. Pink: Yeah that's easy for you to say, you're Mr. White, you have a cool sounding name. All right look if it's no big deal to be Mr. Pink, do you wanna trade?

I always thought...

[mangus_angus]

that most hackers had already met microsoft.

Re:Engineers?

[HydroCarbon10]

As an EIT, I can tell you that its actually extremely vague and varies from state to state. You may or may not be able to get away with just 'engineer' depending on which state your in, the phase of the moon, and who happens to be sitting on the regulatory board for your state. At least, that's my understanding of the issue based on a presentation given by someone who sits on the board in Texas and was attempting to clarify the issue.

Of course, I could be completely wrong. I still think anyone with a CS degree who managed to get a job shouldn't get to call themself an engineer.