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`Hack Microsoft' challenge is NYT Computer News Daily's top story
See http://nytsyn.com/live/Lead/275_100295_074418_19095.html
MICROSOFT BECOMES NEW TARGET OF HACKING CHALLENGE (10/2)
By HEATHER GREEN c.1995 Bloomberg Business News
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Microsoft Corp. has been chosen as a new target
for computer hackers.
Community Connexion, an Internet service provider that last week
promised a free T-shirt to anyone who found a flaw in Netscape
Communications Corp.'s software, extended the challenge Friday to
include holes in Microsoft products.
. . .
The article quotes Sameer and includes the URL http://www.c2.org/hackmsoft/
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A `hacker' is one who writes code. Breaking into systems is `cracking'.