full-disclosure - Microsoft confirms source code leak

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From: jeremiah at nur.net (Jeremiah Cornelius)
Subject: Microsoft confirms source code leak

<SNIP>
> Ah yes, the C2 configuration assistant from NT4 Resource Kit, wherein
> you learn that C2 is only satisfied if
> 
> * NT is the only OS installed on the box
> * The [VGA Mode] option is disabled
> * There is no floppy drive installed
> * There is no network connection
> 
> Might have required NTFS, but it didn't address bootable CD-ROM drives
> for some reason.
<SNIP>

Bootable CD-ROM Drive in 1993?  This was when the C2 process started for NT 3.1.  BIOS and even SCSI add-in cards didn't support CD Boot.

NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51 and the first Rev of 4.0 Didn't even boot from CD-Media.  Remember making the three install disks?

--Jer
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