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Security loophole found in Windows operating system

A group of researchers headed by Dr. Benny Pinkas from the department of computer science at the University of Haifa succeeded in finding a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system. The significance of the loophole: e-mails, passwords, credit card numbers, if they were typed into the computer, and actually all correspondence that emanated from a computer using Windows 2000 is susceptible to tracking.

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