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Microsoft Makes Nice With the Security Elite

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Aug 4, 2003
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eWeeks report from the closing Black Hat party at Ghostbar is pretty amusing. Microsoft threw a thank-you party for folks who have helped it improve its security strategy. And the crème-de-la-crème of the security elite, including some high-level Bush administration officials, all showed. “The fact that they all turned out for a party put on by Microsoft—a company considered by many in the room to be the root of all evil—was the most surprising twist of all,” writes Dennis Fisher.

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