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A lot of them are overseas. Remember the "love Bug".
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Roos" <rosewood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 2:26 PM
Subject: OT: Security--hackers to cia?
> Just a ridiculous question without an answer, but I was wondering why some
> of these hackers and virus writers are not recruited by the cia. Maybe
they
> could find the way that bin anal por Ladin sends encrypted messages to his
> sleeper slime or some other useful activities. If the motivation of
hackers
> and virus writers is excitement and a challenge, I think the cia could
> provide just that. They are recruiting a lot of new people and getting 5x
> the normal CV's coming into them, according to a NYTimes article,
including
> a lot of dotcom unemployed programmers. Their web site lists a lot of
jobs
> available, I noted. I was looking to see what jobs they had, but they do
> not offer any jobs for traders and the pay is low for medical officers.
> Think of the productive endeavors the hackers could find within the cia,
> though.
>
> don
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Jurik" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'MetaStock List'" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "'Omega List'"
> <Omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 11:43 PM
> Subject: Security alert -- Microsoft offers 3 patches for IE5, IE6
>
>
> Microsoft released a patch for Internet Explorer that corrects three new
> vulnerabilities. Using these vulnerabilities, hackers can reduce IE's
> security features for external Web sites, send commands to Web sites that
> appear to come from you, or send malicious code to your system that can
> execute automatically.
>
> Patch location:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/q306121/default.asp
>
> - mark jurik
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