UMKC Hacked!

Charles, Joshua Micah (UMKC-Student) jmcqk6 at umkc.edu
Wed Jan 14 13:07:22 CST 2004


>On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:10:51 -0600 "Charles, Joshua Micah
>(UMKC-Student)" <jmcqk6 at umkc.edu> writes:
>> Got to work on campus this morning and faced another harsh reality of
>> Microsoft technology.  Over the weekend, somebody hacked into the
>> servers, and EVERYONES password was compromised.  Hmm, it will be
>> interesting to discover if any lawsuits come out of this one.

>Microsoft will just blame the proprietary hardware manufacturer, and
the
>proprietary hardware manufacturer will blame Microsoft.

>And since no one gets to look at the Microsoft source code, no one will
>ever know which one of them is right.

Personally, I'm more concerned whether or not any of my personal
information was lifted at well.  If I'm going to get a credit card bill
for $150,000 next month, that's pretty important to me.

Josh




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