Re: Have you heard?

Posted in 1999

Keith Brown — Fri, 06 Aug 1999 18:10:23 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Nathan Neal wrote: > Microsoft challenges hackers to break into Windows 2000 > > In a controversial move, Microsoft Corporation has made one of its Windows > 2000 Servers on the Internet available to hackers, inviting people to > attempt to break in. The goal: To make Windows 2000 as industrial strength > as possible. The company says it is looking for any "magic bullet" attacks > that can kill it, and has asked hackers to follow some simple rules so that > they can determine the validity of any attacks. Since the server went online > Tuesday morning, it has yet to be hacked. > > Feel you've got the right stuff? Head on over to > http://www.windows2000test.com and find out. > > Note: At the time of this writing, the server was unavailable, but its > expected to be back up soon. What an ingenius plan. It can't be hacked if it's down! -- Keith Brown kbrown780@isd.net