Temat: rodzynki z Internetu
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/21/ms_paper_touts...
http://www.tamersahin.com/index_eng.php
In 2002, he [Tamer Sahin] accessed the Microsoft Network Operation Center's computer systems, and he published the secret documents which included informations about Hotmail and other projects on Internet. The documents that he revealed contained the "Microsoft Secrets" project which also included the e-mail correspondances of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer and that constituted a chief resource for the security industry in manifesting the weakness of Microsoft Windows architecture when compared with Unix. Hacking of Microsoft took place widely in the global resources like Wired, Slashdot, The Register and ZDnet.
http://www.tamersahin.com/mssecrets/
http://www.tamersahin.com/mssecrets/hotmail.html
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeMisc/2001/20...
When Microsoft moved to buy Hotmail in 1997, it was already running on FreeBSD, and continued to do so for several years, a source of some embarrassment to Microsoft. The company had earlier said, though, that it removed all FreeBSD from Hotmail last summer, and even has a lengthy technical paper on its Web site describing the transition.
But Friday, Microsoft conceded FreeBSD was still being used at Hotmail on machines that track advertising and that run a crucial Internet function known as "DNS hosting." A Microsoft spokesman said he couldn't explain why Microsoft had given out incorrect information on the topic.
The spokesman said FreeBSD was still in use simply because the company had yet to switch the machines over to Windows.
But one employee of the Redmond, Wash., company said Microsoft has deliberately kept FreeBSD in parts of Hotmail because of its technical superiority over Windows in important functions and furthermore had decided to actually increase its reliance on FreeBSD. Many of the company's Web sites went down much of a day in January, and this person said FreeBSD was judged to be better than Windows at helping to prevent a recurrence of the problem.Andrzej Kosela edytował(a) ten post dnia 02.09.10 o godzinie 01:06