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British "secure" passports code cracked

Submitted by hard-to-get-a-nickna
hard-to-get-a-nickna writes "The Guardian has cracked the so-trumpeted secure British passports after 48 hours of work : "Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did Steve Boggan and a friendly computer expert find it so easy to break the security codes?""
Novell

Ballmer: Linux uses MS IP

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10scjed
10scjed writes "Despite Novell's claim that there are no known infractions, Ballmer states that "Only customers that use SUSE have paid properly for intellectual property from Microsoft," and "Novell pays us some money for the right to tell customers that anybody who uses SUSE Linux is appropriately covered," Ballmer said. This "is important to us, because [otherwise] we believe every Linux customer basically has an undisclosed balance-sheet liability.""
Microsoft

Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft

Submitted by skelator2821
skelator2821 writes "He says the open-source operating system infringes on his company's intellectual property Unbelievable the Irony of this statement.. — In comments confirming the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer today declared his belief that the Linux operating system infringes on Microsoft's intellectual property. More at http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005171&intsrc=hm_ list"

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