[PLUG] Re: Windows 2000 code leaked?

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Fri Feb 13 01:11:02 UTC 2004


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On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:21:39PM -0800, Scott Van Hoosen wrote:
> This leak is a shock not only to Neowin, but to the wider IT industry.
> The ramifications of this leak are far reaching and devastating. This
> reporter does not wish to be sensationalist, but the number of
> industries and critical systems that are based around these
> technologies that could be damaged by new exploits found in this source
> code is something that doesn't bare thinking about.

Neowin's authors are definitely sub-intelligent.  This was a problem
they should have been worrying about all along with closed-source
software.  You will only find critical security concerns when you
develop in the dark and some rogue with access to the archives and
releases the code.  This is a crippling flaw in all closed-source
software, and reason enough why nobody should use it.

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