Word: laakso
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maddeningly, Netscape and Microsoft were slow to fix the problem, which was discovered on June 23 by Ari Takanen and Marko Laakso, researchers at the University of Oulu in Finland. The pair immediately reported it to Netscape and Microsoft. Failing to get a timely response, they turned to NTBugtraq, an influential Net-based mailing list that tracks PC-security issues, and quietly reached some Microsoft techies. Ed Muth, who oversees security issues for Microsoft, says he's checking to see whether the company's response was tardy. Muth, by the way, disputes my thesis that fevered competition is causing half...