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October 03, 2003

Blaming Microsoft
California film-maker Marcy Levitas Hamilton has initiated a class action suit against Microsoft, blaming them for her security problems. The lawsuit just happens to coincide with, and borrow language from, last week's CyberInsecurity report that heavily criticized Microsoft and blamed the software giant for viruses, worms, and Trojans. The problem is, this short-sighted blame game misses the entire crux of the problem.
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