According to a brief article in the Government Computer News (GCN), an IT publication aimed at federal, state and local governments in the U.S, Microsoft, on February 1st, announced a one month development stop on new coding, in order to concentrate on fixing bugs in existing software, one of the first visible signs of Microsoft's new "Trustworthy Computing Initiative", launched a few weeks earlier with an e-mail from Bill Gates.
The article quotes Richard Purcell, head of Microsoft's corporate privacy office as saying that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates "is really annoyed by the incredible pain we put everyone through in computing." (how does that sound?)
Richard Antony Burton published an example of the latest privacy flaw to hit MSN Messenger, one that will list your name & contacts from Messenger. You can access the page here. He also listed a workaround, which basically is one of the recommendations I gave in an article I published back in October 2000 under the title "How to surf the Internet more safely with Internet Explorer"....
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09 Feb. 2002, Vol 5 No. 6
According to a brief article in the 
Richard Antony Burton published an example of the latest privacy flaw to hit MSN Messenger, one that will list your name & contacts from Messenger. You can access the page 
