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| | Microsoft Monitor: January 2004 Archives |
 | | As companies fortify their firewalls, hackers increasingly move down the stack, from the network layer (where firewalls are an increasing fortress) to the application layer (where poorly written code or misconfigured software exposes networks to hacking). |
| | In theory, application software, such as an Office 2003, could use Web services to accomplish the same design goals in a way that, conceptually anyway, would expose less security risk. |
| | But, I believe that place’s expansion will require greater commercialization of Linux and expansion of products along the vertical stack. |
| www.microsoftmonitor.com /archives/2004_01.html (499 words) |
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