2nd July 2003, 9:27 AM
It'll happen anyway. I mean, it's technology. How are they going to keep it from comig out when someone else could just figure it out? MS has everything to loose if they agree to the illegal blackmail, because no matter what the information will be released ANYWAY. Might as well refuse it when you know it'll come out anyway.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)