Re: Interesting read :-)

Marcel van der Boom <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:33:34 +0100
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Exploit is here, now let's wait for the patch :-)

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/16/1737200


Marcel van der Boom wrote:
> 
> 
> Jason Judge wrote:
> 
>> That's my view :-) Let's face it - this is *not* bad for Microsoft in any
>> way.
>>
> I basically made the sama analysis as you did.
> There might be surprise in the future though, the source code is out 
> there now and unavoidably people *will* be confronted with it some way 
> or the other. MS has now the advantages of both the source being looked 
> at by more people and generating revenues by their proprietary model.
> It's easy to trust on the curiosity of people, no matter how illegal it 
> is, people *will* look at the code.
> The community has always surprised me with innovative ways to do certain 
> things (as has MS by the way, albeit in a different area).
> 
> I'm looking forward to an anonymous posting of a patch against that 
> leaded sourcecode. I bet if the patches are good they will not be 
> followed with legal action.
> 
> interesting times.
> 
> marcel

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marcel