full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft issues out-of-band patch

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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:36:37 +0000
From: kevin.fielder@...il.com
To: "n3td3v" <xploitable@...il.com>, nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk,
	full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, "n3td3v" <n3td3v@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft issues out-of-band patch

Hi

I'm not interested in getting into flaming or some personal argument, but how do you actually know this?

I'm sure we all have ideas about how advanced the various security agencies are, but that is conjecture not factual statement. 

Cheers

K

Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

-----Original Message-----
From: n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com>

Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:22:13 
To: <nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk>; <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>; n3td3v<n3td3v@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft issues out-of-band patch

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Nick FitzGerald
<nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> n3td3v wrote:
>
> <<snip>>
>> What i'm saying is this: MI5's systems are patched against flaws that
>> only they know about and their technicians have developed their own
>> in-house patches for them.
>>
>> If that isn't impressive I don't know what is.
>
> Didn't you rail against the ZERT efforts when 0-days were being widely
> used in the wild and MS was doing "nothing much" abou them?
>
> Oh, sorry, I forgot which publicity whore I was talking to...
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick FitzGerald
>

Yes, i'm against *publicly available* third party patches of any kind
and always have been.

Best wishes,

Andrew

http://twitter.com/n3td3v

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