People say time is money.
But so is information, and it's easier to steal. Word spread faster than fiber optics last week that a hacker broke into the planet's largest software company, looked around and maybe even ripped off some valuable source code. Today I'll tell you the most alarming thing about the attack on Microsoft, why you should be scared and why incidents like it are the Achilles' heel in the next phase of computing. The employee connects to the Microsoft corporate network from home. The QAZ software steals the employee's password files and emails them to the hacker, allowing him later to log on to Microsoft's computers posing as the authorized employee.