Al Qaeda hacks Windows XP!

[GT98]

For what its worth!

http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/173039.html

Scott

[Jorden]

...were able to gain employment at Microsoft and attempted to plant "trojans, trapdoors, and bugs in Windows XP..."

We need Al-Qaeda members for putting bugs in Microsoft software? How low do we want to go?

Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said Afroze's claims about the company were "bizarre and unsubstantiated and should be treated skeptically."

Furthermore he said: "We don't need Al-Qaeda for that. We're completely capable of doing these things ourselves."

[Dr Mordrid]

The problem for law enforcement becomes how do you distinguish between an Al Qaeda plant and a normal Microsoft bug? They'd probably be indistinguishable

Still, the fact that he predicted the attack on the Indian Parlaiment should give XP users pause.....

Dr. Mordrid