full-disclosure - Steve Gibson smokes crack?

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Date: Fri Jan 13 20:22:43 2006
From: toddtowles at brookshires.com (Todd Towles)
Subject: Steve Gibson smokes crack?

Stan wrote:
> Ordinarily I'd argue, but its hard to when we find out 
> Microsoft knew about the bug for a long time and made a 
> concious decision not to patch it even though they knew it 
> could lead to a system compromise.

Concious decision? So you are in the Microsoft meetings? Do
tell...didn't think so. They may have known about it, but many huge
companies have security problems in their software..some are so embedded
in the system or related to how the program work..that they will do
anything to protect it. 

Why didn't this get thrown up with the Cisco/Lynn outcry? Oh...because
hitting on Microsoft gets you more attention perhaps...

-Todd