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Story: Microsoft: Firewalls are failing to keep out hackers

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Posted by: Derek Smalls (Tuesday 5 October 2004, 1:55 PM)

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Obliteration of IT? Al-qaeda? Nothing like a bit of scaremongering hyperbole is there?

So firewalls aren't the be-all and end-all of security. Well done, MS, welcome to the world the rest of us have been in for years.

Perhaps if Microsoft locked their products down to start with we'd all be better off.

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