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 -- marcel