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Windows 2000 security kicks OSXs ass!
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foobars
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Somewhere in the land surrouding Fenway Park
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May 15, 2001, 11:51 AM
 
See for yourself!
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../q276/3/04.ASP

OSX doesn't let you do that much! I'm switching!
     
RoofusPennymore
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May 15, 2001, 11:53 AM
 
Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes.
Microsoft sucks! My password is 20,000 characters.
---I'm on a low Microsoft diet.
     
HeatMiser
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May 15, 2001, 11:53 AM
 
I'm with you!
http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/9714.html

I'm outta here! Later, Mac!



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Jsnuff1
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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May 15, 2001, 12:57 PM
 
hehe go on ahead, have fun taking 2 hours trying to type your password every time you log on
     
fobside
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May 15, 2001, 01:24 PM
 
haha, i thought you guys were serious til i clicked the link. then i thought, "how can you say windows is better based on a microsoft site?" then i realized what you guys were talking about. dang i have a hard enough time remembering all the admin network passwords on top of the staff computer passwords...18000 is a bit too much for me.
     
gorgonzola
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May 15, 2001, 05:19 PM
 
From HeatMiser's link:

After all, it was only a month ago that a Welsh hacker exploited a security hole in the Windows NT servers of Visa, to steal hundreds of credit-card numbers, including -- the ultimate in irony-- the credit data of Bill Gates himself.


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