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Re: Intel blows it again



collins@nova.umuc.edu (JimC) wrote:
>Intel, in a remakably stupid case of "biting the hand that feeds them", 
>sucessfully prosecuted Perl expert and author of two perl books (Programming 
>Perl and Learning Perl) for "computer hacking" while he was working as a
>consultant for them. His crime? Remotely accessing their systems from his 
>home and running a crak program on some password files to uncover security 
>flaws. 
>I hope the $60,000 theyre asking covers the loss of goodwill this has caused
>in the programming community. Now where did I put the number for AMD?
>jimc
>
>

You promote thievery?  You do need AMD's number then. ;^)

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Edmond Underwood
Computing & Network Services (University of Colorado)
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