Man arrested for selling Windows source code
A man has been arrested for selling portions of the Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code on-line after the software was illegally leaked onto the internet in February, according to reports.
William P Genovese Jr, from Connecticut, offered to sell a copy of the stolen code on his web site and instructed buyers, including an investigator from Microsoft and an undercover FBI agent, to pay $20 into a PayPal account in order to gain access to the code.
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