Latest Windows versions vulnerable to unusually serious hacker attacks Latest Windows versions vulnerable to unusually serious hacker attacks

TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer Thursday, December 20, 2001

(12-20) 10:44 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --
Microsoft's newest version of Windows, billed as the most secure ever, contains several serious flaws that allow hackers to steal or destroy a victim's data files across the Internet or implant rogue computer software. The company released a free fix Thursday.
A Microsoft official acknowledged that the risk to consumers was unprecedented because the glitches allow hackers to seize control of all Windows XP operating system software without requiring a computer user to do anything except connect to the Internet.
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This is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE coming from a company with the size, experience and resources of Microsoft, but why am I NOT SURPRISED!!!

This Year Was the 2nd Hottest, Confirming a Trend, U.N. Says This Year Was the 2nd Hottest, Confirming a Trend, U.N. Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GENEVA, Dec. 18 (AP) — The Earth's temperature in 2001 is expected to be the second highest in the 140 years that meteorologists have been keeping records, the United Nations weather agency said today.
"Temperatures are getting hotter, and they are getting hotter faster now than at any time in the past," said Michel Jarraud, deputy secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization.
Nine of the 10 warmest years since 1860 have occurred since 1990, the agency said, and temperatures are rising three times as fast as in the early 1900's.
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Hmmmm. Maybe the sky really is falling? I'm sure my right wing friends and their RapeEarth First policy will be quick to point out that these facts are somehow an aberration of reality.