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| Thread ID: 42522 | 2004-02-13 11:01:00 | News: Windows Source Code Leaked | Chilling_Silently (228) | Press F1 |
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| 215238 | 2004-02-13 11:01:00 | This just came through the Nzlug list: www.crn.com Looks like Windows code has been leaked. There was also a message sent with regards to: www.groklaw.net And how its got bad news written all over it for the Open-Source supporters of the world! Here's another Article of interest: www.eweek.com Some say that it may be really bad for Windows Securities: www.winnetmag.com What do the users at PressF1 think of the matter? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 215239 | 2004-02-13 11:11:00 | 203mb eh? Target located and intercept course plotted. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 215240 | 2004-02-13 11:24:00 | Here's a slashdot article: slashdot.org The possibilities of this could be devastating...... Could..... Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 215241 | 2004-02-13 13:31:00 | Considering how difficult it can be to do something simple like install Office successfully or remove Windows Messenger... Imagine the hell on earth it'd be trying to compile it :D </dependencies joke> |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 215242 | 2004-02-13 19:56:00 | Let me be a cynic for a moment. Imagine you are a company producing OS's and your new OS is selling badly because your customers insist on sticking with OSs you have made in the past. No matter what claims you make about your lovely shiny new OS the public insists on using your lovely old OSs' because they are fine for the job. So you tell everybody you will stop supporting the old OSs' to push the change along and nobody cares and in fact the customers start to look at other free/cheap OSs so you reverse your decision and try to think of a way to force your customers onto the new OS. Then shock/horror the source code of your old OSs (the ones the business customers refuse to change from) is somehow released to the hackers. Now you realise you can claim that your old OSs security is badly compromised with no chance of the company protecting it anymore so you had better upgrade to the new OS now if you want to be safe. But do not worry, I am a cynic and what I am saying could not possibly be true as we all know Microsoft love us and wouldn't do anything we would not like in order to pursue even bigger profits. |
John Grieve (367) | ||
| 215243 | 2004-02-13 20:01:00 | hi, I remember when people were downloading the half-life 2 source code and a lot of people were complaining that the 30mb file was filled with gay pr0n :S I've been talking to a lot of programmers in chat rooms and they all seem to think it'll be real... This isn't as bad as half-life 2 source code release was 'cos its microsoft ;) - David |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 215244 | 2004-02-13 20:22:00 | Some people are saying there was 40GB of source code for Win2K. Call me crazy, but Ive compiled 3x PC's with only 1.8 GB woth of source. This includes X, two versions of GNOME, Three version of KDE, and things like the Kernel that Ive downloaded about 6 different versions of, and we cant forget OpenOffice, Mozilla, Firebird/fox. All up, there is just over 1.8GB worth of Source Code. Either they have commented all their source code incredibly well, which would make it a breeze for any Joe Bloggs to understand, or they're lying and there's not much more (if any) to it than this 203MB source code file. Here's an interesting comment: The claimed Windows 2000 source code archive contains 30,915 files totaling approximately 13.5 million lines. The source is dated July 25, 2000, placing it after the official release of the operating system, which was rumored to contain between 35 and 50 million lines of code in its entirety Im not saying I reakon they have all of it, Im saying I think they have between 1/2 to 1/5 of it... I also think that hackers arent going to be overly interested in fixing holes, but rather crackers would be interested in finding new exploits in the code.... Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 215245 | 2004-02-13 20:37:00 | John my thoughts where along the same lines. Mind folk can use other software to help reduce risks-ie not use outlook.outlook express, internet exploder, MS Office with all the macro thingies etc (think there is a common theme here). The thing is XP (and w2k+3 in based on XP) share the same exploits so I'm guessing nothing has really changed. Hmmm "Trusted Computing" yeah right ;). | mark.p (383) | ||
| 215246 | 2004-02-13 20:57:00 | i think microsoft did this to encourage people to upgrade to xp |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 215247 | 2004-02-13 20:58:00 | >>as we all know Microsoft love us and wouldn't do anything we would not like in order to pursue even bigger profits. I think I will go out and fly the Microsoft flag today ;\ |
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