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Aug 23, 2006 | 11:48 am

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Originally Posted by KevAZ

Heck I used to see waaay more cracking of Unix back in the early 90's than Windows. I believe that it was because of the personalities, tools and education of the Unix folk then. When the tools for Windows cracking became mainstream, the "Kiddy Crackers" became the norm and sheer numbers drove them to the Windows OS.

Well remember that there were very few Windows boxes on the Internet in the early 90's. Gates only decided that he couldn't beat the Internet with his own proprietary network in 1995. Ah, to turn back time to the day before AOL allowed the hordes on Usenet..... *sigh* ....

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