Former Hacker Irks Microsoft in EU Dispute

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 20, 2006 @09:15PM from the one-man-headache dept.

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "The Wall Street Journal profiles Neil Barrett, 'a former computer hacker who once infiltrated the system controlling a telescope at a Hawaii laboratory' and is now an expert witness causing problems for Microsoft in its antitrust battle with the European Union. Barrett 'has helped put the British glam rocker Gary Glitter behind bars for pedophilia. And he also has helped prosecute a teenage hacker from Wales, who claimed to have stolen Bill Gates' credit-card number and sent the Microsoft founder a shipment of Viagra. [...] In the corporate world, Mr. Barrett once met a challenge to hack into a large multinational company's system in four days to win a security assignment. He stole the company's undisclosed new logo as a trophy, he wrote.'"

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hacking? by dajobi · 2006-03-20 21:49 · Score: 0, Flamebait

More like cracking.
1. Re:hacking? by RPI+Geek · 2006-03-21 02:12 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  For a site that thrives on being pedantic, modding the parent "Flamebait" is very hypocritical. What the fuck is wrong with the mods these past few weeks?
  
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Re:resume? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-20 23:01 · Score: -1, Flamebait

He *is* a backstabbing little shit and so is the one who modded you down as troll.
Re:Not that I question Barrett's qualifications by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-21 00:41 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Look at the shit you guys call Insightful.

This has nothing to do with a law or a punishment. This has to do with some douchebag saying he doesn't like the documentation for something. WHOO WEEE!

You guys are a bunch of fucking fags.