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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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