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Article #502Re: {OT} Windows source code leaked to the internet
From: techie
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 17:06
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:49:31 +1000, W wrote: > <mathew@spamtrap-spiesareus.yi.org> wrote in message > news:slrnc2uop2.ckj.mathew@alpha.spiesareus.yi.org... >> Even you should have figured out the slight difference between the number > of >> people at MICROS~1 poking around in the Windows source code, compared >> with how many Linux developers, security researchers and government >> officials are poking around in the Linux codebase. > > Oh, so you are not then, and consequently have absolutely no idea exactly > the number of people involved with alpha, beta, pre release and even post > release scrutinisation. So you admit that Windows end-users have no way of knowing how much Windows source code has been scrutinized? > Do you honestly think that the bug lists that are released etc are just > coming out of M$ - like fun, they are being produced by corporations, > government and even members of the public who have signed up for software > testing project. How many of these people get to see the source code and how many find the bugs only by randomly probing what amounts to a black box? Or don't we know that, either? > > Seek and ye shall find the answer to the question that has plagued and > eluded the world - of course there is a NDS/A that needs to be agreed to > prior to starting. So even if someone does find a security vulnerability, they're not allowed to tell the rest of us about it? This just gets better and better. :o/
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From: techie <none@dontspamme.invalid>
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Subject: Re: {OT} Windows source code leaked to the internet
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:06:05 -0600
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