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Microsoft World-Domination Plan Discovered
By Michael Hunt
Underpaid Worker, CNET News.com
January 11, 2001, 7:05 p.m. ET

Ever notice an increase in defaced sites not running Windows?

Well, the amount of defaced sites that are not on a Windows platform shows that hackers are bored with NT, and see no challenge in it.  A hacker calling himself "tokachu" is one of these hackers.  Nearly all of his site hacks had nothing to do with a Microsoft exploit, and none of his defacements took place on a Windows server.


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However, "tokachu", while snooping around Microsoft's server during it's infamous hack, had uncovered archives of plans to partner with Time/Warner, and their plans to eventually control all forms of media.  (Note: it has been shown that tokachu was not responsible for the original hack)

One of these plans, theoretically, was to release children-oriented cartoons with subliminal messages in the speech convincing viewers that resistance to the movement was futile.  Some of the shows included Digimon, Pokemon, and Dragon Ball Z.

To prevent any interference from the US DOJ, Microsoft and Time/Warner decided to fake a "competition" between each other.  The supposed competition farce worked.

Worse yet, an artificial-intelligence algorithm, developed by Microsoft from 1990 to 1999, was "released" on the Internet in early 2001.  The AI acted like a virus, finding multiple forms to spread across systems.  It is estimated that 84% of all computers connected to the Internet are infected with some form of the AI.

What the fuck?
"I think it's insane that such a preposterous assumption be committed to either reputation of Microsoft or Time/Warner," said Steve Case, president and CEO of America Online. "It's almost as bad as that 'hack rumor' that convinced people that their AOL accounts were being stolen.  Password changes and accidental charges to their credit card accounts were merely a result of bad programming from companies we are not affiliated with."

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Microsoft's operating systems are among the most widely used.  Nearly 100% of people who used a computer have used a Microsoft operating system.

IDC pegs Windows NT as holding about a 38 percent share of the shipments of server software in 1999. Linux captured a 24 percent share of shipments, Netware held 19 percent, and Unix had a combined market share of 15 percent. IDC research figures for 2000 have yet to be released.

Proof that Windows 2000 "insecurities" were purposely programmed in can be seen in this archived image from Microsoft.

"There is a trade-off if you make it very easy to develop applications to deploy them, sometimes you may take some shortcuts in security," Kusnetzky said.

Still, security experts agreed that the methodology used by Attrition.org needs to be studied more closely before drawing any conclusions.

"What this shows us is that all systems continue to have security problems," said Matt Bishop, an associate professor of computer science at the University of California at Davis. "That's why we are all banging our heads against a wall."

 
 
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