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

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

[freedom_india]

He should have sent Bill a copy of OS X bought using Bill's credit card along with a kindly note reminding him about XP's "security".

Or much better, he should have "donated" 8,500 dollars to FSF or Open Source Linux... man that would be rich...imagine calling the press anonymously and telling them that all the time Bill was against Free Software, he is supporting them quietly in order to "embrace" better ideas from them...

Re:Bill should hire new lawyers.

[supersnail]

Under the regime of "Bill the Bonker" as he is known here the DoJ were winning the case against MS hands down.
Queue the "Bush Brothers" and after a bit of vote rigging in Florida the DoJ were instructed to quietly drop the case.

Re:Bill should hire new lawyers.

[boule75]

May I add a bullet:
The results are:

1) Ireland gets a lot of tax revenue
2) Ireland does what its told to by MS and others

and 3) the other EU states are deprived of legitimate tax revenues by fiscal dumping. And one wonders why their growth is sooo strong. It's a wonderfull country and people though.

Cheers Eire !