Technology News from Wired News - MS Servers Leave Back Door Open . Microsoft acknowledged its engineers included a secret password in some of its Internet software that could be used to gain access to websites globally, the Wall Street Journal said Friday. The employees had not yet been identified. Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Thursday that its engineers included in some of its Internet software a secret password a phrase deriding their rivals at Netscape as 'weenies' that could be used to gain illicit access to hundreds of thousands of Internet sites worldwide. All rights reserved.
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