Engineers are smart…
Aparently the crack programming staff at Microsoft embedded some “renegade” code into an unnamed 3-year-old server software that allows you access to the admin stuff on the server. Their “we didn’t do it on purpose” defense went out the window when a comment was found in the midst of the rebel code that reads, “Netscape engineers are weenies!”
No, I’m not making this up.
[updated by trk]
… in some software [the passphrase] could be used to
gain illicit access to hundreds of thousands of Internet sites worldwide,
according to reports.
It goes on to say that it works through FrontPage Extensions!
YeeeHaw… what a bunch of name calling children.