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[ InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel] Microsoft in March held a two-day summit called “Blue Hat”, where it invited hackers to meet with the security researchers who work to protect Windows, according to C|Net. While the article does not mention any specific criminal hackers, it does say that Jim Allchin, the guy in charge of the Windows product group was there, as well as Stephen Toulouse, a program manager in Microsoft’s security unit, Matt Thomlinson, Microsoft’s director of security engineering, Dan Kaminsky, who does research for limitations in hashing algorithms and file transfers, and HD Moore, creator of the intrusion program Metasploit.

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[Not Your Father's America] Exploiting flaws in Microsoft computing systems: 'It was just silent,' said Stephen Toulouse, a program manager in Microsoft's security unit. 'You couldn't hear anybody breathe.' The demo was part of an extraordinary two days in which outsiders were invited into the heart of the Windows

[Stephenbrophy.net] Stephen Brophy.net: A friend of mine has invited me to become involved as a Lacrosse referee - the fringe benefits are pretty cool - an all expenses paid trip to Wales in July, and Canada in 2006.

Jd.manilasites.com[Jd.manilasites.com] JD's Blog: New Media Musings: The show had invited two aides to help him surf the Web: the legendary hackers Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, and Emanuel Goldstein, publisher of the hacker quarterly 2600, a vocal supporter of the long-running "Free Kevin" campaign.

Findory.comhttp://findory.com [Findory.com] Findory : Seattle PI Microsoft Blog: As reported over the weekend, U.S. District Judge Frederick Motz dismissed four of Novell's six claims in a suit alleging that Microsoft took anticompetitive actions against WordPerfect in the 1990s. But in allowing two counts to go forward, Motz pointed to evidence including a 1997 e-mail from Microsoft executive Jeff Raikes to Warren Buffett that first surfaced in a separate antitrust case .

Aviransplace.comhttp://www.aviransplace.com [Aviransplace.com] Aviran's Place: The system differs from BitTorrent’s eponymous software in a few ways, said Peter Key, joint head of the systems and networking group at Microsoft’s research labs in Cambridge .It does not depend on central servers, called “trackers,”

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