Hello Ralph, Ralph De Witt wrote:

Wow MS operating System source code hacked with the possiblite that ever copy of ME and 2000 now is open to these people. Makes my open source os seem better by the minute. And MS did not even know about it for over 3 months.

Yes, that's it. And we DO NOT KNOW how often this happend already and they perhaps didn't realise at all! Or so say it in Bruce Schneier's words: "As a cryptography and computer security expert, I have never understood the current fuss about the open source software movement. In the cryptography world, we consider open source necessary for good security; we have for decades." (http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9909.html) Bye, Jan -- ETES - Espenhain & Theofel EDV-Systeme GbR Libanonstrasse 54 * D-70184 Stuttgart Phone +49 711 4895550 * Fax +49 711 4809761 EMail: info@etes.de --- URL: www.etes.de ... Beratung, Netzwerke, Internet, Homepages, Datenbanken, Kommunikation, Software, Hardware ...