Teenager comes to Microsoft's aid

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
A teenage computer whizz from Aberdeen in the UK has averted a potential crisis at software giant Microsoft. But all he received for helping protect Microsoft from hackers was a mention on its website. If I were him, I wouldn't bother again.
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He said: "At first I was put through to a load of different departments because they thought I was a home user with a problem.

"Then I got put through to the security response team and that's when we started working together, passing bits of code back and forth."
Source: BBC

Comments

  • pseudonympseudonym Michigan Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Jerk-Offs. They should at least pay him as a contractor or something.
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Holy sh!t that's alot of icons. :eek2: Such a geek and everything and you would think he would atleast know how to organize his desktop. Folders man, FOLDERS!!!
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Virtues of Evil wrote:
    Holy sh!t that's alot of icons. :eek2: Such a geek and everything and you would think he would atleast know how to organize his desktop. Folders man, FOLDERS!!!


    Haha! That's the first thing I saw too!
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    lol... first thing I thought was "some geek - he's using the n00b background" ;D
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Real geeks don't use wallpapers. For performance :crazy:
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited April 2004
    Virtues of Evil wrote:
    Real geeks don't use wallpapers. For performance :crazy:
    You saying I'm not a real geek? I use a desktop wallpaper. How dare you insinuate I'm not a real fully fledged geek. Look at the animated sig, look at the section on my website completely dedicated to my computer hardware components, look at the copy of PCAdvisor I've got lying on the bathroom floor, you look at me in the eyes and say I'm not a real geek? :rant:

    Bah! You insult me right down to my core. Be gone with you.:mean:

    /me puts down the glass of Whisky.
     EDIT: I forgot the Star Memorabilia.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Real geeks use this genuiwhine wallpaper!
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Spinner wrote:
    You saying I'm not a real geek? I use a desktop wallpaper. How dare you insinuate I'm not a real fully fledged geek. Look at the animated sig, look at the section on my website completely dedicated to my computer hardware components, look at the copy of PCAdvisor I've got lying on the bathroom floor, you look at me in the eyes and say I'm not a real geek? :rant:

    Bah! You insult me right down to my core. Be gone with you.:mean:

    * Spinner puts down the glass of Whisky.

    EDIT: I forgot the Star Memorabilia.
    Half-assed geek?
    ;D
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Virtues of Evil wrote:
    Holy sh!t that's alot of icons. :eek2: Such a geek and everything and you would think he would atleast know how to organize his desktop. Folders man, FOLDERS!!!
    That was my first thought as well... the only thing that amuses me more than an IT specialist who can't keep his workstation in order is that's what we ALL focused on out of that story ;D
  • dragonV8dragonV8 not here much New
    edited April 2004
    General Keebler wrote:
    That was my first thought as well... the only thing that amuses me more than an IT specialist who can't keep his workstation in order is that's what we ALL focused on out of that story ;D

    Story?.............What Story.................There was a Story? :wink:




    You are correct though, MS sure didn't do the right thing by the young bloke. They should have an Incentive scheme, or at least reward him appropiately.

    ARE YOU LISTENING BILL GATES!!! :mean:
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