George Stathakopoulos had been general manager of Microsoft’s Product Security and Security Engineering and Communications Group. He managed the company’s various security programs, collectively known as Trustworthy Computing. He is replaced at Microsoft by Matt Thomlinson, formerly senior director of security engineering. Security is increasingly important to the company as it develops its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Web-based computing infrastructure. Security experts worry that it could be misused by criminals or hacked by the company.”]
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