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Methinks in their bitterness from losing out to Wall Street Journal Technology Reporter Ted Bridis on the Microsoft Hack story, the New York Times is being a tad overzealous in sucking down what the Microsoft PR flacks are handing them on a silver platter. First, that no source code was downloaded and second, that MS knew about the hackers and even tracked them through the whole attack.

Such greediness will only lead to disappointment when these publications will find out, in fact, the Microsoft is delivering a message chocked full of lies. Microsoft is apparently so incredibly paranoid about the rest of the real story getting out that its rumored they have resulted to gestapo threats to keep would-be information-leaking slave^H^H^Hemployees in line.

Why would Microsoft go out of their way to diffuse their current public responses with utter crap and yet threaten to completely ruin the lives of employees who even answer a phone call from a reporter? Perhaps the real story makes the anti-trust issue look like a good thing. I wonder what Larry Ellison's up to?

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