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    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

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    Apple computers have built a solid reputation on being virus-free, but is the reality different from the image?

  • Unix pioneer an open-source killjoy?

    Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and a pioneer in designing Unix, has voiced doubts about Linux's open-source underpinnings.

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