Former Hacker Irks Microsoft in EU Dispute

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.'"

Comments

Wow

[Galston]

epenis++;

Frosty Pist

[Anonymous Coward]

Yup it's all mine beeyotches.

woopdeedoo basil what does it all mean?

[Anonymous Coward]

CORR this coffee smells like shit

Re:He should have sent Bill a copy of OS X...

[freedom_india]

And do you think, it is etical to accept stolen money for a holy purpose?

I don;t know...the church used to accept a lot of unehtical money...

Importances of secure Operating System

[Anonymous Coward]

I came to know an article from http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7069459557.html website which this OS claimed to be resistant to Phishing, virus, how to justify these and is there another operation system having the similar features to offer.

Re:He should have sent Bill a copy of OS X...

[Anonymous Coward]

Since when was the church ethical?

Re:Fuck the EU

[someone1234]

ms's genuine advantage just screwed my father's computer. It lose all previous restore points and suddenly didn't recognise the anti virus product on the machine (probably because MS pulled some of those from the supported list). All this because those greedy bastards don't trust him buying original XP. The XP was practically shown down his throat when he bought his PC, he couldn't even buy a PC without that crappy OS. Don't talk me about MS is a better product. It is a pile of steaming cowdung.

What?

[koreaman]

Since when is pedophilia a crime? If we've started making it a crime to have some sexual orientation, I'm getting the hell out of this country, just out of principle.

Re:hacking?

[RPI Geek]

I suppose I should start meta-modding more often.