These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercial software.

I'm not going to say Macintosh is as inherently buggy as Windows was about five years ago. But the holiday is over.

For banks, their number one is protecting the impression of trust. If they lose that impression of trust, that bank goes out of business. It's that simple.

They're the ones finding the latest hack for the Web, instead of finding the latest hack on the Web, ... There's a big difference.

The more functionality you have, the more likelihood there is for a security vulnerability, and Windows NT just keeps building more and more functionality in there.

I used to say there were only ... a few hundred (in the latter category). These are people who like to play with software and figure out how to find exploits into the software. That requires lots of good technical talent and knowing how to do software testing.

This one, from a technical standpoint, isn't dangerous in and of itself. What makes it dangerous is that it can spread very, very rapidly and fill up mail servers, causing mail servers around the world to crash.

With free e-mail, the more accesses there are, the more money they potentially make from advertising sales, so they don't put that much thought into the design of the system for security.

To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.

To a large extent, this could be a failure with open source.